Gmail hit with global outage. I blame Maduro. Nah, central points of failure are just bad engineering, and the reason for building things this absurd way is political, all about control.
Did you know that in the days of the Portuguese empire, mail sent from Northern Brazil to Southern Brazil (or the other way around) would travel to Portugal first, and then to the recipient back in Brazil? Not an awful lot of differences here.
https://www.cnet.com/news/gmail-is-down-outage-around-the-world-for-some-users/