Juan Guaidó takes advantage of the anger provoked by the breakdown and announces an escalation against Nicolás Maduro's regime

Juan Guaidó convened on Saturday a major demonstration against the regime of Nicolás Maduro in the capital, Caracas, in the midst of a major power outage that lasted more than 50 hours. The country, a member of OPEC, is going through an economic crisis and a new wave of political unrest fueled by the young president of the Congress, Juan Guaidó, who has proclaimed himself president and who is recognized as such by dozens of country.

The dictator Maduro said the blackout was the work of his rivals backed by Washington, who wanted to overthrow him.

The fault is "for high-tech, high-tech attacks (…), electromagnetic attacks against transmission lines to generate an interruption in the transmission process and to sabotage the national reconnection process," he said. Maduro at a Miraflores Palace event.

"The right has condemned imperialism to the electrical system and we are seeking to repair it quickly"he added.

The cut in Caracas and the rest of the country began Thursday afternoon and, after a brief resumption of supply in some areas on Friday, the failure continued until Saturday. , in the middle of a day of protests convened by the opposition and the regime.

Most parts of the country were deprived of energy for 50 hours, affecting water supply and communications.

"All Venezuela in Caracas!"shouted Guaidó standing on the roof of a truck southwest of the city.

The opposition leader announced that he will embark on a tour of the country in the coming days with deputies for the "takeover of the Grande Caracas" and evoked a possible international intervention in Venezuela.

"You have to be responsible, this option is on the table, but I would not be worthy of the position I took if I did not say clearly: This option involves blood in one of its variants , and here is the only one left on the blood He is the usurper of Miraflores, "said Guaidó.

This 35-year-old engineer was proclaimed interim president on Jan. 23 by invoking articles of the Constitution and was recognized by the United States and dozens of countries accusing Maduro of being re-elected in elections fraudulent.

The deputies said that the police had forced at midnight the dismantling of the platform installed by the opposition for the event on Avenida Victoria, an area located southwest of Caracas.

After a brief fight between the opponents and the riot police, the act was committed without major incident and the main concern seemed to be the effects of the blackout.

The Miraflores Palace, the seat of government, was also temporarily out of service at noon on Saturday, according to Reuters witnesses.

Diosdado Cabello, the regime's second man and president of the ruling National Constituent Assembly, announced Saturday at noon that six of the 23 Venezuelan states were unserviced.

The scheme said that the failure of the Guri hydroelectric power stationin the south of the country, it was a "sabotage", but experts believe that it was a failure of the transmission system and that the delays in its repair were due to lack of equipment and technicians.

The non-governmental organization Doctors for Health reported that the lack of energy supplies and the malfunction, or the lack of emergency factories, killed 17 people in public hospitals in Caracas and other places in the country. details delivered.

The Ministry of Communication did not respond immediately to a request for comments on these reports.

In Maracaibo, in the northwest of the country, doctors at the modest private clinic "San Lucas" were sitting at the door of the emergency room, which was plunged into darkness.

"We do not have any services or patients in detention because the factory is shut down," said Chiquinquira Caldera, head of the administrative sector, while playing chess with the doctors in office.

Alexis Villalobos, a 42-year-old dry grocer, was waiting to be cured at the emergency room of the Amado Clinic, also in Maracaibo.

"They stole money for electricity projects, they suffer here, it is above all children and the elderly have never seen it before" , he added.

With Reuters information