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From Caracas

The night from Friday to Saturday brought some tranquility to Venezuela. Electricity returned to 70% of the country after more than 24 hours of power outage. In each house, the same gestures of connecting refrigerators, telephones, communications, opening coils so that water is sent by electric pumps have been repeated. In the morning, queues multiplied to buy food which, under the impact of hyperinflation, exceeds the available cash amounts. When normality seemed to be a fact, it came back to light. It was eleven thirty on Saturday morning.

At that time, the opposition was already concentrated on Victoria Avenue, in Caracas, for the mobilization called last Monday by Juan Guaidó, when he returned to the country after rendering himself in Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. It was the main activity on the agenda after a meeting with some unions of the public administration on Tuesday.

Chavismo, for its part, began concentrating in the center-west of Caracas to go to the Miraflores Palace. Dates like this March 9 – the fourth anniversary of Obama's decree declaring Venezuela as an unusual and extraordinary threat – are usually a manifestation of forces, images, where the city is divided by areas that are turning back to the aesthetic. and political: the Chavismo, the red, the opposition dressed in white. The clbad cut is marked, with a majority of popular sectors and some middle clbades of Chavez, a proportion invested in the right.

The mobilizations took place in the context of the new power outage, which has the effect of fatigue, anger, uncertainty, danger in hospitals and factories. The circulation of information by the networks was weak, the groups of WhatsApp were almost inactive, the facts, few, corroborated by the pbadage of the hours.

Guaidó, who spoke with a megaphone, announced that he would call a new mobilization in Caracas, which he has not yet had. "We must go to the seizure and the conquest of power, spaces (…) we must unite to get together so that all Venezuela come to Caracas.They want to demobilize us, it is ours. "

Among his disciples, Guaidó had a receptive effect. The tension was generated by the "intervention" demand from those who were present and by the weak response from Guaidó, who said he could appeal Article 187 of the Constitution, which would open the door to an intervention, he said, "when the time comes." The demand is forcefully installed in the sectors of the right of February 23, the day they failed to enter the trucks with l & # 39; humanitarian aid.

Not only the basics on the right require intervention. Some leaders, like Antonio Ledezma too. "Come on, please. @Jguaido officially requests a humanitarian intervention," he tweeted before the mobilization.

Nicolás Maduro spoke a little later in front of the Miraflores Palace. He presented the chronology of the five attacks, both physical and generative, and electromagnetic transmission and transmission networks, and cybernetics to the automated control system. He added that the 70% restored Friday evening had been damaged again Saturday at noon. He focused his responsibilities on the strategy of attack on the electrical system designed by the United States, domestic law, in complicity with what he called "infiltrators into the business."

The deconcentrations of the mobilizations took place in a calm city, attempts of communication between families, the anxiety of a possible new night in the dark with all its consequences. No incidents were generated in the streets after two days of #MegaApagon – like a trend on Twitter – and it is not strange to badume that one of the effects sought by the attack is precisely to turn the population towards South. streets to protest. Some parts of the country have not restored their service since Thursday.

This is a struggle for the restoration and stabilization of the electricity system, which previously presented difficulties in different parts of Venezuela, in order to reduce the damage caused by the long duration of the national jurisdiction. Sabotage can be expected to continue and develop, as Guaidó announced at Saturday's protest: "We must announce with responsibility that this will turn into a gasoline crisis."

The end of the afternoon has brought uncertainty about the immediate and the future. The right has not given a date of mobilization and it seems obvious that the strategy of the prolonged wear is a letter that they think to use to obtain its effects: it generates wear, uncertainty, chaotisations and does not expose the same opposition which denies any responsibility for the facts. One of the axes of the conflict is thus centered on the interpretation of events.

Days have become a tension between the return of light and power cuts, the normalization needed before an unprecedented siege that puts a country in resistance.