{"id":59427,"date":"2025-04-29T03:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59427"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:50:41","slug":"blackout-spain-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-cuba-and-venezuela-on-its-journey-to-the-third-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/29\/blackout-spain-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-cuba-and-venezuela-on-its-journey-to-the-third-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout: Spain follows in the footsteps of Cuba and Venezuela on its journey to the Third World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, millions of Spaniards experienced a situation we'd never experienced before, in the form of a national blackout.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/10\/china-vietnam-and-the-most-sinister-aspect-of-socialist-corruption-in-spain\/\">China, Vietnam and the most sinister aspect of socialist corruption in Spain<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/25\/a-huge-socialist-robbery-of-spain-so-that-pedro-sanchez-can-remain-in-power\/\">A huge socialist robbery of Spain so that Pedro S\u00e1nchez can remain in power<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In addition to being left without power, <strong>mobile phone networks also went down<\/strong>, so many of us had no way of notifying emergency services if we needed them. <strong>In my city, Vigo, the blackout lasted 13 and a half hours<\/strong>, at least in the area where I live, as the incident has continued in other parts of the city. <strong>In many cities across Spain, this massive blackout has caused massive traffic chaos<\/strong>, as well as train travel disruptions on many lines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I'm 49 years old and I've never experienced anything like this before.<\/strong> Until now, I'd only heard of similar situations in <strong>the repeated blackouts suffered by the citizens of Cuba and Venezuela<\/strong>, two dictatorships that have a common denominator with the current Spanish government: <strong>socialism and communism<\/strong>. I don't think it's a mere coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>It should be remembered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20250428\/video-viral-sanchez-diciendo-no-haber-apagones-espana_292036.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2022 Pedro S\u00e1nchez said that there would be no blackouts in Spain<\/a>, <strong>accusing \"the right and the far right\" of claiming that something like this could happen<\/strong>. This Monday, S\u00e1nchez appeared to announce that he was unaware of the causes of this blackout, but <strong>due to this government's repeated resort to lies, his words can no longer inspire any confidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It should be remembered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/economia\/20230423\/sabre-dia-zapatero-reconocio-burbuja-renovables-ahora-arruina-espana_109860.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the socialist government of Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero caused a \u20ac30 billion hole<\/a> <strong>with its commitment to so-called \"renewable energies\"<\/strong>, a commitment that has resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energias-renovables.com\/panorama\/el-consumidor-domestico-espanol-paga-hoy-la-20200203\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in electricity prices in Spain that was already double that of the European Union in 2020<\/a>. Despite this, and contrary to the policy of other European countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalmadrid.com\/2025\/3\/13\/69198\/el-cierre-nuclear-una-batalla-casi-perdida-por-el-gobierno.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez's government is determined to close all of Spain's nuclear power plants<\/a>, putting its ideological dogmas above the well-being of all Spaniards. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1916904976732848279\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And now S\u00e1nchez says he doesn't know the reasons for this blackout.<\/a> <strong>Please don't make us laugh...<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/economia\/espana-pais-mayor-tasa-paro-union-europea-datos-disponibles-ranking-20250130135646-nt.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">putting Spain at the head of Europe in unemployment<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eleconomista.es\/economia\/noticias\/13045657\/10\/24\/espana-es-el-quinto-pais-con-con-el-mayor-endeudamiento-en-la-ue-mientras-su-deficit-sigue-por-encima-de-la-media.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">among the five European countries with the highest public debt<\/a>, the coalition government of socialists and communists headed by S\u00e1nchez <strong>achieves a new milestone: that Spain suffers a national blackout like those in Cuba and Venezuela<\/strong>, whose regimes are an example of the degree of economic disaster that can be reached by following the left's recipes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I wonder what else will have to happen for some people to open their eyes<\/strong> and realize the level of disaster that the already repeatedly failed socialist and communist recipes, which are part of this government's manual, are leading us to. <strong>Spain is becoming a country where train failures are as common as socialist corruption<\/strong>, unemployment, government opacity, waste of public money, and the rising cost of living. This national blackout is the icing on the cake, and I fear it won't be the last. <strong>We have a left determined to send Spain on a journey to the Third World.<\/strong> Now we are seeing the result.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/multimedia\/galeriasfotograficas\/presidente\/Paginas\/2023\/290523-sanchez-elecciones.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">La Moncloa<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, millions of Spaniards experienced a situation we&#8217;d never experienced before, in the form of a national blackout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[94,710,693,2721,627,24332,159],"class_list":["post-59427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-cuba","tag-zapatero","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-socialismo","tag-spains-blackout-of-april-28-2025","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}