Blackout in Venezuela: 88% of the population has no internet connection

Venezuela has been without light for more than 24 hours. NetBlocks Internet Observatory yesterday identified a new widespread failure that began shortly after 17 hours (UTC).

This concerns Caracas and at least 18 Venezuelan states. According to this report, 88% of country is offline right now. This is the second major power outage occurred in the country in less than a month: the other occurred on March 7 and lasted for about one month. ;one week. These episodes have left the country without light or internet connectivity in a mbadive way.

A few minutes ago, Juan Guaidó, the interim president of Venezuela, shared the statistics of this entity on his Twitter account. Referring to the court said that "when this happens is that the scheme intends to misinform via social networks, it is important to turn to official sources".

NetBlocks performs scans that map in real time the entire IP address space of a country. And these studies show cuts on the Internet corresponding to energy cuts in the region.

Internet interruptions caused by power grid disruptions have a specific scheme used by NetBlocks to determine and badign the root cause of an interrupt, as detailed in this entity's page.

NetBlocks presents itself as "a civil society group that works at the intersection of digital rights, cybersecurity, and Internet governance." Independent and non-partisan, NetBlocks aspires to an open and inclusive digital future for all.

New blackout in Venezuela

Several cities in Venezuela, including major areas of Caracas, woke up Tuesday without electricity, forcing the government, again, suspend work and educational activities for one day.

Monday afternoon, a fault described by Nicolás Maduro's regime as "an attack" left most of the country's 24 states without electricity for several hours. At night, after the gradual restoration of the service, the light went out and on Tuesday morning, much of the country still had no access to electricity.

"A new, large-scale attack has been perpetrated in the Guri transformation yard," Minister of Communications Jorge Rodríguez said on Monday, referring to Venezuela's largest hydropower complex, which supplies nearly 70 percent of the country's energy supply. energy of the country.