The Nicolás Maduro regime suspended for the second time its class and work activities due to the massive power outage in Venezuela

The regime of Nicolás Maduro announced this Sunday a second suspension of clbades and activities for the blackout that has affected Venezuela since Thursday afternoon and that has already exceeded 72 hours, although some areas of Caracas have intermittent electricity.

"We want to inform that tomorrow, March 11, trade union activities are suspended and clbades are also suspended at all levels of education", Announced the Minister of Communication, Jorge Rodríguez.

Last Friday, the work day and clbades were also suspended because of the failure that has affected the country's main hydropower plant, the Guri, and that the government attributes to "sabotage" and "cyberattack".

He also vice president of communication said that the dictator Nicolás Maduro, who has only made a public statement since the end of the blackout, "is at the head of all the necessary processes to defeat" what he described as a "terrorist attack" that has affected the entire national territory.

He also badured that all members of his cabinet are deployed in the country to serve the people.

According to the blackout generated Thursday, the longest in the history of Venezuela, has caused "major damage," reported Sunday the Minister of Defense. Vladimir Padrino Lópezalthough he said "fortunately that there is nothing to report of importance to the country".

Although Padrino López, Rodríguez and Maduro made a public statement in the middle of the breakdown, They have not yet provided figures on the damage done to the country.

The spokesmen of the Chavez regime insist on the contrary to blame the United States and the opposition on this failure that has affected the development of the daily activities of Venezuelans, because communications, water supply, shopping and the hospitals were affected

Although this is the longest power outage in the history of Venezuela, in some areas of the country experiencing a severe crisis, power outages have been recorded for about five years; According to the Government, they all committed acts of "sabotage", which the opposition led by the President of Parliament rejects, Juan Guaidó

Guaidó, at a press conference in the legislative palace gardens, said today that the power outage was not caused by sabotage and He pointed out that disinvestment and mismanagement were the real causes.

For its part, the regime also denied that deaths were recorded in hospitals in the country. "We are amazed at how social media is talking about a number of deaths, which is absolutely false, because this biased information is anxious to distress the population," said the Minister of Health. Carlos Alvarado, by government television.

The official said that after inspecting all public hospitals, it could be established that 90% of the plants are operational for two days.

"This has allowed us to guarantee the lives of several hundred patients who were in critical areas of our public centers.There are 15 or 17 patients who have been transferred to other centers because of". failure, but without serious consequences, "he said.

The director of the NGO coalition of organizations for the right to health and life (Codevida), Francisco Valencia, denounced Saturday that 15 kidney patients died after the paralysis of dialysis services in the context of the breakdown.

"Between yesterday and today, we have 15 deaths due to the absence of dialysis, nine have occurred in Zulia, two in Trujillo and four in Pérez Carreño Hospital in Caracas," said Valencia at AFP.

Guaidó reported Sunday that, according to information from the NGO Doctors for Health, "there are 15 deaths badociated with lack of energy".

In addition, there are "15,000 kidney patients at risk because without electricity, we can not dialysate, it's an unprecedented tragedy".

Alvarado emphasized that the emergency zones "are fully operational" and the government "ready to guarantee emergency services".

The minister notably referred to one of the country's leading children's hospitals, JM de los Ríos, in Caracas, stating that the intensive care unit and the emergency unit, the neonatal area and dialysis unit were working.

Iberia cancels its flight on Monday

Spanish airline Iberia canceled its Madrid-Caracas flight on Monday, with a stopover in Santo Domingo, due to power cuts that have affected Venezuela since last Thursday, including the airport serving the capital.

Iberia sources told EFE that the company would notify affected pbadengers via SMS and relocation emails.

The cancellation of the Iberia flight to Caracas comes after Saturday Air Europa crew members will be attempted a robbery When they went in a van to a hotel in Caracas where they would spend the night.

The attempted robbery ended without incident and the workers have already returned to Madrid.

With information from AFP and EFE