New blackout in Venezuela | The government has denounced a …

Page 12 in Venezuela, from Caracas

An electricity blackout was recorded Monday at 1:29 pm in 16 states of Venezuela, including much of Caracas. The event lasted about three hours. After the restoration of the electrical service, the Minister of Communication, Jorge Rodríguez, announced that it was a new sabotage as part of the destabilization plan against Venezuela.

"We have received a new attack against the transmission and charging center of the national electrical system to take the machines from the Simón Bolívar hydroelectric plant located in Guri, in the state of Guayana," he said. At seven o'clock in the afternoon, the necessary generation values ​​had been reached to standardize the service.

When the painting appeared to have been restored, a new attack was recorded at 9:47 pm in the Guri's transmission yard, "affecting the three autotransformers that make it up and the essential cable at the end of the transmission," Rodríguez said. The capital and a large part of the country were again in the dark.

Around 10:45 Tuesday, the first restoration to light was recorded in Caracas. The Minister of Communication had already informed early in the morning of the suspension of 24 hours of school and professional activities in the country and several emergency plans for transport had been activated, including in Caracas affected by the paralysis of the school system. Metro

The blackout occurred 18 days after the previous one which lasted several days. On this occasion, President Nicolás Maduro said that it was a sabotage conducive to four forms of attacks: cyber-attack, electromagnetic, fire and internal complicity, affecting the both the production and transmission centers. This denunciation was supported by the Russian government, which stated through the Foreign Ministry that part of the attacks had been committed from outside.

According to the government, this is the second major power failure caused by sabotage, which is what Rodriguez described as "the war of electricity". On his Twitter account, he showed pictures of the fire, the work to extinguish it and the exact place where it took place.

This new fact follows the complaint filed by Rodriguez, who announced last Saturday that he had been arrested and dismantled part of a structured army for terrorist purposes. At the head, he explained, were the leaders of the Voluntad People's Party, with the participation of Juan Guaidó himself, international operators to obtain the necessary funds and groups composed of Colombian and Salvadoran mercenaries and paramilitaries, Guatemalans and Hondurans. Part of the plans were to generate actions such as subway attacks and sabotage.

The power cuts are part of the general conspiracy that began in January with the self-proclamation of Guaidó and the stage that began after February 23, the day the US spokesman and spokesman badured that they would succeed the entry of the country. humanitarian aid to the country and his plan was frustrated. From then on, the difficulty of maintaining the expectation around Guaidó in his social base began to become visible, as well as to advance linearly, as a spokesman for the right insinuated, towards an intervention foreign military in Venezuela.

It was at this point that the national power outages began, denounced as overtly open plan attacks and declared by the United States. They appear as a way to put pressure on the places of chaos, wear, economic pressures that add to the financial attacks that have intensified in recent days, especially from different banks. According to Guaidó, this failure, just like the previous one, was caused by the lack of maintenance of the electrical infrastructure.

The situation was normalized in Caracas on Tuesday afternoon. The government has announced the joint work of several institutions to stabilize the system throughout the country as soon as possible in order to avoid further escalation of problems, including lack of water. During the previous power outage, the attacks were successive, which resulted in several times a situation of new power failure.

This time, like the previous one, the calm response of the population was to solve the problems related to the lack of electricity.