Blackout in Venezuela: Maduro regime suspended the country's activities for the second day in a row

Venezuela faces Wednesday on the second day of a new power outage after the break in dawn service in several regions of Caracas and in the interior regions of the country, forced the Chavez regime to extend the suspension of clbad activities and working hourswithout informing of a return date.

The country, which has the largest oil reserves in the world, has experienced prolonged power cuts in recent weeks. On Monday afternoon, a failure had been reported with an intermittent resumption of supply and on Tuesday the decline in service continued until almost the end of the day.

On Wednesday, service was again interrupted in areas of Caracas and in cities such as the industrial city of Valencia, as well as at least half of the 24 states of the country, which imposes a new "holiday" national.

The commercial activity in the affected states has been reduced by 80% in some cases and the stores or restaurants that have chosen to open their doors have made to receive payments in dollars or in other foreign currencies.

The Maduro regime, subject to growing international pressure by the United States to give up power, claims that power outages are the product of sabotage by its opponents seeking to overthrow it in order to seize the oil wealth of the country. Venezuela.

Electrical experts, on the other hand, say that the supply crisis that has plagued the country for several years and intensified on March 7 with a five-day power outage, this is due to lack of maintenance and investment of the infrastructure.

Experts warn that after the last cuts, the electrical system is even more vulnerable. The scheme maintains that the latest is due to a fire in a courtyard of the Guri hydroelectric plantin the south of the country following an incident that affected three of the country's major transportation networks.

(With information from Reuters and EFE)