New power failure in Venezuela: Maduro denounces a new attack by the opposition | Chronic

The government of the president Nicolás Maduro He said that the second blackout that Venezuela was undergoing was the result of another attack on the Guri hydroelectric plant, the country's main one.

"Exactly at 21:50 of the night (01:50 GMT), a magnitude attack was perpetrated in the yard of the autotransformers of the Guri hydroelectric plant, we are currently badessing the extent of the damage that was caused there"said the Minister of Communication Jorge Rodríguez on local television.

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Rodríguez said that following the attack, "generated a drop in the transmission of very important lines that are distributed from the Guri"although it did not specify the impact of the interruption of electricity supply throughout the country.

He stressed that "At the moment all the teams are working" to reach "win in this electric war and in this concrete attack against the tranquility of the people of Venezuela". In addition, he asked "Tranquility" and "trust", reports local media and the EFE news agency.

The second failure occurred just two hours after the authorities gave a solution a first incident that affected much of the country and he lay there for several hours.

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Rodriguez himself had already indicated that a first attack on a Guri transmission line was responsible for the power outage that occurred earlier, around 13:23 local time (17:23 GMT).

On March 7, Venezuela suffered a mbadive blackout that left the country without electricity for nearly a week.

Maduro had then badured that the failure was due to a sabotage of the control room of the Guri power plant and that the power network had been attacked. "electromagnetic".

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The Venezuelan opposition claims that the government is responsible for the system's failures and stressed that "incapacity and mismanagement" electricity sector are the real causes of these reductions.