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Why oh why would they care about a powerless, broke, and decaying country like Venezuela?

Got any deep throat sources for this besides some out-of-options “president”?

compared to the coups/assassinations in south/central america over the last few decades a cyber attack is pretty mild...

Conflating country wide attacks with precision targets is very extreme to say the least.

So the obvious answer to gp is that the socialist government in power ruined the infrastructure and they are having to account for it by saying “the evil Yankee empire is the cause of these blackouts”.

Always go for the simple answer before looking for boogeymen.

Removing left wing governments in South and Central America by any means necessary has been US policy for almost a century now. A cyber attack on infrastructure is very much on brand.

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