A blackout recorded in the early hours of this Friday left the Venezuelaincluding the capital, Caracas, reported Freddy Ñáñez, Minister of Communication, who attributed the incident to “sabotage.”
“We are reporting that at approximately 4:40 a.m. [8h40 GMT] Today, Friday, August 30th An electrical sabotage occurred in Venezuela“a sabotage against the national electricity system, which has affected almost the entire national territory. The 24 states are reporting a total or partial loss of electricity supply,” the minister told state channel VTV.
Blackouts have been frequent in Venezuela for a decadeThe worst of these occurred in March 2019 and lasted for several days, leaving the country in darkness.
Western regions of the country such as Táchira and Zulia, once the oil capital, experience daily power outages.
The government of the president Nicolas Maduro normally He attributes these failures to plans orchestrated by the United States and the opposition to overthrow him.. Although opposition leaders and specialists, contrary to the theory of sabotage, blame the government for lack of investment, incompetence and corruption.
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“It’s a new electrical sabotage“, insisted the minister. “We experienced it in 2019, we know what it cost us in 2019, we know what it cost us to recover the national electrical system since then and today we are facing it with the protocols.”