Maduro controls the energy to fight the blackout: rationing the use and shorten the workday

CARACAS.- In

Venezuela

The electric current comes and goes. For hours, days. Complicates the normal functioning of cities, the
water supply, food refrigeration, health of inhabitants. Since the March 7 blackout, which left virtually the entire country in the dark, the
government of

Nicolás Maduro

Try to get rid of the problem and accuse the United States of sabotaging the system to overthrow it. Yesterday, to face the
situation that does not improve, announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity.

In the radio and television channel, the Bolivarian reported on the implementation of the project as part of attempts to "rebuild and rebuild" the national electricity system. "I have approved a 30-day plan to move to a cargo management regime, balancing, between the entire generation process," the transmission processes and " consumption across the country, "explained Maduro, but not He offered more details.

He stated that he had decided to reduce the hours of work in both the public and private sectors and had asked his collaborators, mayors and governors to ensure the removal of the city by vehicle while the lorries. supply stabilized.

"The Bolivarian government has decided to suspend its school activities and set up a daily working day in public and private institutions until two o'clock in the afternoon," the minister said. Communication, Jorge Rodriguez, without giving any delay.

The "cargo administration" plan, like Chavismo, generally calls for the rationing of electrical energy that he has applied repeatedly over the last few years. It will apply to repair the "brutal damage" caused by the United States and their local opponents.

The announcement came nearly 12 hours after Venezuelans had a new flaw in the capital and at least two dozen states in a series of national failures recorded daily in the South American country. This also happened at the end of a series of spontaneous demonstrations, many of which were repressed by collectives, as is known in

Venezuela

Groups of armed civilians linked to the Chavez government, protesters reported.

Lack of water

Millions of Venezuelans found themselves without "a drop of water" following the numerous power outages that have occurred since the beginning of March. "We have small children and we have nothing to give them a drop of water to drink," said María Rodríguez, in Caracas.

The socialist leader, who was generally accusing the power cuts of sabotage, has given the green light to civilian groups who support him to contain the protests he calls "violent guarimbas" to overthrow him.

"We have no water, no electricity, no internet, no telephone, we are in secret, we have reached the worst of what we could imagine," complains Joaquín Rodríguez in a scene that is repeated in many neighborhoods of Caracas: families of entire waiting lines and loading of several barrels and buckets to collect water from springs, broken pipes, ditches, tanks provided by the government or the little that flows on the river Guiare.

"This has been seen coming" because of corruption, lack of skills and lack of maintenance of the electrical system, said Miguel Ara, head of the Venezuelan electrical system's operations until 2004.

In the midst of the emergency, the Red Cross announced that it would distribute humanitarian aid imminently to Venezuela. According to the UN, nearly a quarter of the 30 million Venezuelans need "urgent" help.

AP and AFP agencies