New failure affects a large part of Venezuela

Caracas and vast areas of Venezuela were again in the dark Tuesday night, on the eve of a new call from the opposition, Juan Guaidó, to protest against the collapse of basic services.

The power outage, the largest since a week, took place at 23:20 local time, noted AFP, and affects much of the capital and important areas of at least 20 of them. 23 states of the country.

Among the affected areas are Vargas, Miranda, Aragua, Carabobo, Cojedes (center), Lara, Zulia (west) and Margarita Island, according to information provided by social network users.

Neither the government nor the state National Electric Corporation (Corpoelec) immediately offered explanations on the causes or scope of the new power failure.

The regime of Nicolás Maduro attributes interruptions to sabotage, but the electrical experts say that the failures are the product of the few investments, the lack of maintenance and the corruption.

Last week, the government revealed what it called a "Freight Management Plan"electricity or planned cuts, which did not include the capital or the states Vargas and Delta Amacuro.

Venezuela continues to face the consequences of the mbadive blackout on March 7. Since then, there has been a series of power outages that have plunged the country into the darkness that remains today, at least four hours a day, in 20 states due to rationing. light.

The megapagon that took place a month ago affected most of the country for five days, paralyzing its activities. Although the regime announced on March 12 that electricity had been restored in almost all after "attacks" on the system The oil nation still suffered mbadive power outages.

To date, 20 of the country's 23 states, where the Venezuelan capital is not included, are left without electricity for six days a week for at least four hours, at different times, as the authorities apply rationing. electric. as announced by dictator Nicolás Maduro a week ago, it will last 30 days.

With Reuters information