Crisis in Venezuela: the government announced that it had managed to restore the electrical system after 6 days of power outage

Venezuelan Minister of Communication Jorge Rodríguez badured that the electrical service has been restored throughout the country after the blackout that lasted six days. In addition, it announced the resumption of suspended activities since last week, but indicated that schools would remain closed for 24 hours.

"Today is completely restored the 100% electric service at the national level, "said Rodriguez, although he acknowledged that there were still areas in check, according to the manager. "local sabotage" and they are taken care of.

The blackout, the longest of history in a country accustomed to this problem, coincided with the acute political crisis in Venezuela by the conflict of powers between President Nicolás Maduro and the head of Parliament, the anti-Juan Juan Guaidó.

Chavismo said that the breakdown was a sabotage United States with the cooperation of the opposition. On the other hand, the government representatives of Donald Trump and Guaidó claimed that it was the product of government inefficiency and lack of investment in the country's hydraulic power system.

Military exercises

The official also announced the start of new military exercises for this weekend as part of an "integral action for the protection of people and strategic services of the nation".

Rodríguez explained that the exercises were looking for "complete protection of the entire national electrical system and the water system "so that another similar failure will not happen again." We seek to prevent them from recurring in the future new attacks of criminal actions of Venezuelan right-wing terrorism and its owners in the administration of the US government, "he said.

The exercises, he explained, will involve the deployment of the entire military force Venezuela around the 114 electric service stations that the oil country must "undertake a process of strategic protection" of these facilities.

Deployment will also be done in "all water supply systems," he concluded.