Maduro denounces that a "cyberattack" causing a failure of the electrical reconnection

CARACAS.- The President of

Venezuela

,

Nicolás Maduro

, announced today that a new "cyberattack" had foiled the process of reconnecting electricity, in the midst of a gigantic blackout that now lasts more than 48 hours.

"Today, March 9th, we had increased by almost 70% when we received, at noon, a new cybernetic attack on one of the generational sources that worked perfectly and disrupted and disrupted. destroyed everything that had been accomplished, "Maduro badured a crowd of supporters in the center of Caracas.

According to the president,
The blackout that paralyzed the country since Thursday was caused by a series of "cyber, electromagnetic and physical attacks", as part of a "state sabotage" operation organized by the states. United States and developed with the complicity of "saboteur hoof cutters" the national electricity company Corpoelec.

In a speech at the Miraflores Palace, at the end of the anti-imperialist anti-imperialist march, Maduro said that on three occasions the government had managed to restore electricity supply. Attacks and sabotage that hurt his efforts took place each time.

Maduro has defined the power outage as "an imperial ambush" and "the biggest electrical attack of all memories of the history of Latin America".

He also announced an operation to "free" the Corpoelec from "infiltrated moles who will be investigated, will be discovered and punished with rigor".

ANSA and AFP agencies