The regime of Nicolás Maduro arrested five people for "terrorist attacks" against Venezuela's electrical system

Five people were arrested in the midst of the blackout wave that has been affecting Venezuela since March, accused of attacking the electrical system, informed Tuesday the Minister of Communication and Information, Jorge Rodríguez

Those arrested, according to the head of Chavez, are involved in "terrorist attacks" against the Guri hydropower plantin the state of Bolívar (south), source of 80% of the energy consumed by the oil country.

"What do we have up to now? Five captured to whom participation in certain attacks has already been demonstrated"said the official in a statement to the press at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas.

According to the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, recurrent power outages that have paralyzed Venezuela for several days since March 7 they are the result of cybernetic, electromagnetic and physical sabotage.

From this date, according to Rodríguez, about 280 arson and 45 "minor attacks" were counted independent of those allegedly perpetrated against Guri.

The minister said that there were 19 people involved in the investigation of the case.

Of the five inmates, he only identified Otoniel Ramón Sánchez, electrical engineer of the sector, whose family had arrested last week.

Sánchez "is directly involved in the process of aggression in Guri (…) We already have his confession, we already have the relationship he has with other factors", he declares.

Organizations defending human rights They denounced the "persecutions" against the workers of the Corporación Eléctrica Nacional (Corpoelec) after the power cuts.

Rodriguez added that the capture of four Venezuelans abroad was requested: Julio César Acuña and Jesús Rodríguez Landony, based in the United States, as well as Ramón Oswaldo García and Miguel Freitas, who live respectively in Spain and Colombia.

Experts blame the Chavista regime for power outages, the lack of infrastructure maintenance and corruption.

Opposition leader Juan Guaidó, head of the parliament recognized as interim president of Venezuela for half a hundred countries, has made the electricity crisis one of the pillars of his offensive against Maduro.