Venezuela has suffered millions of losses with the massive blackout that has already lasted six days

Venezuelans suffer this Wednesday lack of water and food for the worst blackout in the history of the country, which has already six days since its debut last Thursday. This serious situation He left millions of people in a ruined economy.

Although electricity has been restored in most of the country, including Caracas, some western states have they had large areas without power.

"China hopes that Venezuela can quickly find the causes of this accident and restore electricity and social order", Said the spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lu Kang, after Maduro announced that he would also seek the help of Russia and Iran to investigate what he denounces as an "attack" on the electrical system led by the United States.

According to Ecobaditica, the losses due to the power outage amounted to "875 million dollars". The industry is paralyzed and "to recover the country, we must seek the support of the multilateral and the oil sector," said the director of this private consulting firm, Asdrúbal Oliveros.

"There is significant paralysis in many critical areas of the oil sector. At this point, we could lose 700,000 barrels a day ", noted Ecobadítica.

With the oil company PDVSA – source of 95% of the country's revenue – in default and undermined by corruption, Already depressed crude oil production had fallen from 3.2 million barrels in 2008 to nearly one million before the blackout.

The emergency, which reached Caracas and 22 of the country's 23 states of 30 million inhabitants, began Thursday afternoon and it is only Tuesday that Maduro badured that the light was restored in "almost everything" territory.

Maduro accuses Washington of having committed "cyber attacks" and "electromagnetic attacks" on the El Guri hydropower plant (located in the state of Bolívar, in the south of the country), which feeds 80% of the country's population.

Acting President Juan Guaidó argues that the collapse it's due to "negligence" and "corruption" that reached 1,500 million dollars until 2016. "The dictatorship causes despair and darkness," he said.

"Without water, without light, without medicines, without money or means of transport, it was great," he told AFP. Victoria Milano, 40 years. Although he already has electricity at home, he is afraid to cut it again.

In a country that has been suffering from food shortages for years, the power outage leaves $ 5.5 million in losses to meat and dairy producers, according to the National Federation of Livestock Producers (Fedenaga).

The biggest problem now was, in the meantime, water. Long lines were formed around oil tankers organized by the regime and the opposition town halls for distribution, even in Caracas, where pumping has not yet stabilized and where there has been rationing.

The Minister of Water, Evelyen Vásquez, said it is "complex" to establish how long the water will be normalized: "We started pumping and we are progressing gradually, we are facing a situation of attack".

Hospitals have experienced dramatic situations. According to Guaidó, about 20 people died, while the NGO Codevida reported that 15 patients with kidney failure had died due to lack of dialysis. The diet, however, deny that there are deaths.

"How is it possible that the maternity does not have a power station? We used" wicks "(oil lamps)", complained Milan against the conditions of the hospital where she works in Caracas.

The country was in mid-March. The government extended until Wednesday the suspension of work and student hours. Many companies and banks remain closed and public transport, already deficient in itself, is very rare.

"From Saturday to Saturday it was only one meal a day, in the evening a little oatmeal and that 's all, we have nothing today" , did he declare. Elena Espinoza, 38, lives in Maracaibo.

In the middle of a crisis, the dictatorship of Maduro created a commission to find those responsible and stated that he had "evidence that sabotage had been ordered by the Pentagon and Southern Command, and directed from Houston and Chicago".

Guaidó decreed the state of national alert for 30 days, ask for international help to overcome the crisis. Spain, one of its main supporters in Europe, has offered to help it recover a "very deteriorated" electricity system.

"Maduro is responsible for the tragedy," said the opposition, proclaimed president-in-office on Jan. 23, as a result of the majority of congressional opposition. declare "usurper" to the representative of Chavez for having estimated his re-election "fraudulent".