Blackout in Venezuela: Nicolás Maduro's regime reduced working hours and suspended classes on Monday

The regime of Nicolás Maduro decreed this Sunday reducing the working day and suspending clbades on Monday by the worsening power cuts that have been accentuated in the oil country since March 7 last.

"To ensure the coherence of the electrical service, the Bolivarian government has decided to suspend school activities and to introduce daily working hours until two pm in public institutions and private sector, "said the Minister of Communication, Jorge Rodríguezin a statement read on government television.

Several demonstrations took place this Sunday in Caracas because of the recurring power outages that affected the country, especially the interior regions of the oil country.

This is how the Chavez groups attacked the protests this Sunday

The main source of violence was in Fuerzas Armadas Avenue, in Libertador Municipality, Caracas, where the paramilitary group fired on protesters. leaving at least two injured with bullets.

The dictator Nicolás Maduro, who generally accused the power cuts of sabotage, gave the green light to the civil groups that support him to contain the protests that he calls "violent guarimbas" to overthrow him.

Joaquín Rodríguez, a 54-year-old lawyer, hit two plastic containers during a protest in Los Palos Grandes, a wealthy neighborhood of Caracas that suffers from a power outage for a decade.

"Once again, a national power outage is affecting our quality of life, we do not have water, we do not have electricity, we do not have internet, we do not have a phone, we are in secret, we arrived at the worst we could imagine, "denounced in front of the agency AFP.

Around 9:40 (local time, 13:40 GMT), the flow of energy was interrupted in the Venezuelan capital, which almost fully resumed its functions after the blackout that occurred Saturday night.

The Chavez regime reiterated that "terrorist" attacks had damaged the Guri hydroelectric power plant, which generates 80% of the electrical energy in Venezuela.