Mass blackout in Venezuela: power outages persist in Caracas and several states of the country

Power outages that began Friday night persisted this Saturday in several states of Venezuela and Caracas.

Neither President Nicolás Maduro nor the State Corporation Corporación Eléctrica (Corpoelec) gave explanations about this latest national power outage which has now lasted 24 hours and which had initially affected 21 of the 23 federal entities, according to local media.

However, the president of the Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, examined the number two of Chavismo, said in an act of mediation in Caracas that a "new attack" on the electrical system had occurred without giving more details.

The governor of Miranda, Chavista Héctor Rodríguez, said that around 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT), in 91% of the regions near Caracas, the flow of energy had been restored. However, citizens complain in social networks that power cuts are continuing.

The villagers of Carabobo, Tachira, Zulia, Falcon, Trujillo and Merida states badured EFE that they had accumulated 23 hours without electricity even when the service had already been reconnected to neighboring communities.

Many reports circulated through social networks Short periods of electricity or frenetic intermittence in the service which have been recorded throughout the day in several states of Venezuela.

In Caracas, the metro service through which hundreds of thousands of citizens pbad daily is inoperative, as was the case during the power cuts on the seventh day, when the country was paralyzed for a week, and on Monday after 72 hours. . the government took for granted.

Last month, Nicolás Maduro, in power, accused the United States and the Venezuelan opposition of "sabotaging" the power supply, claiming further that there had been "electromagnetic" attacks "and" long-range "against the electrical system.

The Venezuelan opposition criticizes the executive for the failures of the system, saying that the inefficiency and mismanagement of the resources of millionaires for the electricity sector were the real causes of the reduction.