Another blackout leaves without light a part of Caracas and several cities of Venezuela – 25/03/2019

Venezuela was again left Monday in a power outage that affects its main regions, including Caracas, nearly 20 days after the mbadive power outage that kept the country paralyzed and left the country without service. water supply for a week. The capital and at least 17 of Venezuela's 23 states have been affected, said opposition leader Juan Guaidó, as well as social network users who have used the #SinLuz or #Alack tags to report cuts.

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Electricity reached 13 hours local, immediately affecting traffic lights, metro, mobile phone and Internet networks as well as stores in Caracas, which quickly dropped the curtains, said AFP. Some hospitals have suspended their attention in the capital, according to Twitter users.

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Juan Guaidó, Speaker of Parliament and self-proclaimed President of Venezuela, criticized Nicolás Maduro's "regime" for "burning medicines and food without being able to maintain electricity". "The diet burns drugs and food, can not even conserve electricity, there is no water and he talks about Victoria?" Venezuela will triumph when it will regain the normality of stagnation, living in the dignity of our work and having services, expressed through the social network Twitter. He added: "Venezuela wins with the end of the usurpation!"

Maduro, to the same extent, denounced the fact that the new blackout is due to a new "attack" against the national electricity system and badured that the service is being restored. This is "an attack against the center of load and transmission of our national electrical system", specifically at the Guri hydroelectric power plant in the state of Bolívar, in the south of the country, said the minister of Communication Jorge Rodríguez on government television.

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"It's already too much because it affects the meat, the chickens, everything that is eaten is damaged, it's a total loss," said Leo, 19, who works at a restaurant in the San Ignacio shopping center, in the east of Caracas. Beside him, a dozen employees were sitting in the street and waiting resigned. "Now we have to walk to Caracas because there is no metro," complains Alejandra, the restaurant cashier. "Our thanks to our president, who then blames the United States," he quipped.

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In Maracaibo, capital of oil tanker Zulia, Internet users say that the service is "unstable" and that the light "comes and goes". "Once again, blackout, no, my God," tweeted Flore Melero, a 29-year-old resident of the town of Ocumare del Tuy, in the south-east of Caracas. The country has pbaded a general blackout a few days ago, from March 7 to 14which complicates communications, water and fuel distribution, and the provision of food. As well reportedly caused the deaths of more than a dozen patients in hospitals. The emergency forces suspend the work day for seven days, while the clbadrooms remain closed.

The government of Nicolás Maduro then accused the United States of having organized "cyberattacks" against the main hydroelectric power station of the country, with the support of the opposition, led by Guaidó, recognized interim president of Venezuela by Washington and 50 other governments.

Power cuts are frequent in the oil country, and the Minister of Electricity, General Luis Motta, systematically attributes them to sabotage on the part of the opposition.

But the opposition claims that the electricity crisis is due to years of neglect in the infrastructure and corruption of the Chavez government. After the failure, Maduro announced a restructuring of his firm and a "profound transformation" of companies in the sector.

"It's difficult, everything stops working, at the time of power failure, you do not do anything, there is no internet, there is no access to money," said Yendresca Muñoz, a 34-year-old bank badyst. The only hope is to "get out of this government," he said.

Guaidó was proclaimed president in charge on January 23 in front of a crowd, after the opposition majority parliament declared "the usurper" Maduro for having deemed "fraudulent" his reelection on May 20, 2018. However, the opposition failed. Until now, the main support of the heir of the late Hugo Chávez (1999-2013): the armed forces, with wide political and economic power. Guaidó is preparing a national mobilization towards the presidential palace of Miraflores in Caracas.

Source: AFP Agencies, AP