Monday, March 25, 2019

Sabotage in Numbers


Venezuela’s leading news outlet Efecto Cocuyo, has a count of the times the Minister of Electric Energy, General Luis Motta Domínguez, has claimed the Venezuelan electric system has been the target of acts of sabotage since he took office in August 2015.

Looking back at Motta Dominguez’ Twitter timeline (@LMOTTAD), Efecto Cocuyo finds that the minister mentioned “sabotage” 66 times, “attacks” 31 times, and “induced event” once. Aggregating the mentions that correspond to the same event, and correlating with its own news reports, Efecto Cocuyo says that nine times the minister claimed sabotage was the cause behind blackouts, two more blackouts were “induced events,” and a third was caused by a rat.

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