Nicolás Maduro asserted that Venezuela's electrical system "has been attacked from Chile and Colombia with the support of the United States"

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Saturday that his country 's power system had also been "attacked" by Chile and Colombia, with the support of the US government, which is accused of causing the power outages. electricity in the country. March

"We have discovered new sources of attacks, from Chile and Colombia, which have conducted cyber-attacks backed by the US government to damage the Venezuelan electrical system."He said from the Miraflores Presidential Palace where he received the thousands of supporters who walked to support him.

He said that investigations by the authorities had shown that "viruses" had been introduced into the electrical system from these countries.

However, he badured that he had already taken steps to protect the system, which he repeated on Saturday, was attacked in March in a cybernetic and electromagnetic way by the United States in order to "overthrow him" ".

"They resorted to cyberterrorism, they resorted to electromagnetic terrorism with the channels of transmission"insisted the president, reiterating that "the attack" targeted the country's main hydroelectric power plant, the Guri.

In this regard, he called on the countries of Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia to "demand" the cessation of "aggression" against the US. Venezuela. "Enough of Donald Trump's badault on the people of Venezuela!"he asked.

On March 7, Venezuela began a series of power outages that paralyzed the country for at least 11 days.

On Sunday, when authorities began to recover electricity, Maduro announced the start of electricity rationing for 30 days, but it was only yesterday that again the details have been known.

Caracas, Vargas, Amazonas and Delta Amacuro have been excluded from rationing electricity, according to which at least 20 states would be deprived of electricity four hours a day, according to the government.

In addition, the government announced that it would modernize the electrical system due to "serious" damage.

The "attacks" denounced by the government are rejected by the opposition, which claims that power outages have occurred due to the lack of maintenance of the power plants and corruption of the government. State.