New failure affects much of Venezuela – 04/10/2019

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

The power outage, the largest in a week, took place at 23:20 local (03H20 GMT Wednesday) and affects much of the capital and important areas of at least 20 of the country's 23 states.

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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 national electricity company National Corporation (Corpoelec) immediately gave an explanation on the causes or scope of the new power outage.

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Since March 7, a cut left most of the country in the dark for five days, they continued to produce consecutive power outages affecting water supply, transport, telephone and internet services.

The government of Nicolás Maduro insists that cuts be attributed to "electromagnetic, cybernetic and physical" attacks on the Guri hydropower plant, which produces 80% of the energy consumed by the country, and accuses the United States to be late to generate anxiety in the population.

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Although not of this magnitude, power outages have been common in Venezuela for years. The opposition and the experts consider that the cause is the deterioration of the infrastructure lack of investment and technical skills.

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Guaidó, recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries, on Wednesday called for a new national demonstration as part of mounting pressure for Maduro to step out of power, dubbed "Operation Freedom."

Source: AFP