Without light, without water and without food at the Embassy of Argentina in Caracas

The power outage that prevents most of Venezuela from being lit about two days ago undermines the already exhausted forces of Caracas' suffering. Even for diplomatic delegations, which usually benefit from other amenities, things start to get complicated.

Specially complex the situation has become that of the chargé d'affaires in charge of the embbady of Argentina in Caracas, Eduardo PorrettiWhat? 48 hours ago, he is locked up at home, without light or water, and has more and more difficulty communicating with his work team and keeping him under surveillance.

The Argentinean residence, a charming rationalist style house located on the heights of Valle Arriba, has suffered from a lack of maintenance for decades and is one of the few residences of ambbadadors of the capital of Venezuela. There is no generator. This made the food in the refrigerators rotting with the pbadage of hours without electrical energy and had to be thrown away.

But in addition, the heavy portal that allows the entry and exit of vehicles in the residence only works on electricity. Therefore, since the blackout began last Thursday, it has been impossible to open and Porretti remains inside the house in a situation more and more desperate, without light, without water, almost without food and without mobility, according to Infobae sources of chancery.

Although the Argentinian government remains in the vanguard of pressure against Nicolás Maduro and has strongly supported Juan Guaidó, he has never broken his diplomatic relations with the Bolivarian regime. Porretti has been called on several occasions to consult Buenos Aires, but he has always returned to Caracas to maintain possible links with Chavez officials who still hold power and compliment them while continuing to work. hundreds of Venezuelans seeking information to move to Argentina.

After the resumption of Maduro on January 10 and the appointment of Guaidó, Paraguay broke off relations with Venezuela and Maduro did the same with the United States and Colombia. However, Mauricio Macri decided to return Porretti to Caracas at the beginning of February. A few days later, he received the acting president at his home. He did not imagine that a month later the main disadvantage of carrying out its task would not be political but the lack of basic services in his house.