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The Venezuelan Parliament, with a majority of opposition, on Monday authorized the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Juan Guaidó, proclaimed president in charge of the country last January. declare a "state of national alert" because of the "calamity" that runs through the nation due to a power outage that lasts 4 days.
Members of the opposition caucus they unanimously approved the decree, which is understood "as a modality of the state of exception" and will prevail for 30 days.
Venezuela suffers since last Thursday from a failure of the electricity service that still affects much of the country and, according to the government of Nicolás Maduro, after a "cyberattack" against the Guri hydropower plant, which powers about 70 million people. % of the territory.
In his speech to the National Assembly, Guaidó also asked for help from the international community to stop oil shipments by Nicolás Maduro's government in Cuba.
"We decided to stop delivering oil to Cuba, they are not going to continue chuleando money from the city of Venezuela (…), not only we decree it, but we also ask international cooperation to make this measure effective, "Guaidó said in the middle of an emergency legislative session in the face of the blackout. general of the country.
Cuba is one of the main allies of the Venezuelan regime, a country from which it receives about 100,000 barrels of oil a day, at preferential prices., through several cooperation agreements.
The main, Petrocaribe, also supplies crude oil to several Caribbean countries with the same low interest rates. Cuba pays for oil with sports and cultural consultations and with a contingent of doctors who are swelling the ranks of a social primary care program called Barrio Adentro.
But Guaidó said Monday that he needed "urgent" oil that he sends daily to Cuba to witness the emergency that started last Thursday., when a mbadive blackout has left almost the entire country without service.
Guaidó's decree states thatand the "excuses" of Maduro's government are "full of lies and great cynicism" and indicate that disinvestment and ineptitude are the cause of the reduction.
The text also provides for the armed forces to mobilize the technical staff of Corpoelec, a public company, due to the collapse of public transport in the country.
Similarly, "instructs all foreign service personnel in the country to establish the necessary contacts to coordinate the proposed international technical cooperation" in order to fully restore the service.
After the approval of the decree, Guaidó told MPs that he had contacts with several governments in the region and with companies around the world, who have the capacity to advise Venezuela so that he can raise his generation.
Power outages and other utilities are common in Venezuela, a country that is going through a serious economic crisis even though it is the repository of the world's largest oil reserves.
The cuts are more severely expressed in the interior regions of the country, but they are already affecting the city of Caracas, capital of the nation and seat of the public authorities.
This economic and service crisis is set against the backdrop of the tension that erupted last January, when Maduro swore a new mandate whose legitimacy does not recognize the opposition and is part of the international community and, in response, Guaidó said that he badumed the powers of the executive as interim president.
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