The tension rises in Venezuela: cacerolazos for lack of light and water and censorship on the official television

Venezuela is preparing on Monday for a day that threatens raise the level of violence on the streets, after a weekend with Outbreak of events in the most popular areas of Caracas and in several states of the country, which culminated Sunday night with Cacerolazos thundering, burning rubbers and placing obstacles on public roads.

The long hours without electricity they are getting worse with lack of drinking water and the crisis of domestic gas supply, badociated with a generalized state of in secret by the fall of telephone and Internet networks, in addition to the silence of information in the media of the country, which led to a state of deep dissatisfaction and collective anger.

The government has made its forecasts. Conatel, which is the National Telecommunications Commission and the one that controls the radio and television channels, broadcasters recently banned from developing special operations in the face of urgent services in the country, thus trying to present an appearance of normality.

Sunday night, Nicolás Maduro on the pretext of announcing his death Rationing power for 30 days, once again launched "a renewed appeal to all the people of Venezuela, to the revolutionary people, to the patriotic people, to defend peace in every corner, in every parish, in every municipality, in every communities, in all neighborhoods ", taking care of this time without talking about the groups who left during the weekend to face the protestersespecially in the popular neighborhoods of Caracas and the interior of the country, as in many cities.

The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) are no longer able to guarantee Maduro the control of public demonstrations or internal order. This national guard who faced the so-called guarimbas (street demonstrations, with traffic jams and burning of rubbers), in 2014 and 2017, does not have the capacity or structure to accomplish this task in 2019; there is thousands of National Guards who defected in the last two years and most of those who remain do not want or want to confront those who protest the failures of public services or the shortage of food and medicine, which are the same problems faced by soldiers and their families. There is also no official representative or ministry able to guarantee compliance with the supply of electricity, gas, water or fuel.

The Minister of Defense, General in Chief Vladimir Padrino LópezIn an attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness of the government, he must appear publicly on an oil tanker during an operation that supplies water to a community of Caracas, as he was a politician of lower rank in the countryside. Major General Richard Lopez Vargas, General Commander of the National Guard, also participates in the activity.

It is tragic to see the senior officer of the Venezuelan armed forces and an elemental commander occupy these positions, while the military institution does not deal with what is constitutionally compliant, as well as the defense of the territory and the sovereignty threatened. by the presence. irregular groups.

The National Guard It is the component in Venezuela that fulfills the dual military and police function, the one that does not fulfill and that is why groups of armed civilians, called collectivewhich replaces them in their functions.

The event threatens to grow because there is sites where there is no electrical service for more than a weekas it happens in some areas of the state Zulia, Amazonas and Falcón. "Since Monday 25 am," said a desperate journalist from Maracaibo, "they suspended the electrical service, they installed it on Saturday morning for five hours and since then, there have been more of # 39; electricity. "

A producer from Zulia reveals that "we have lost thousands of liters of milk on farms, there is no money and there is no fuel."

The response of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, is to challenge the national government by calling people to the streets. "We," he said, "do not hide yourself as the dictator, we put the chest with you and with you, they will not be able to do it with us." With this message, he calls an badembly with the deputies, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of this Monday in San Bernardino, the urbanization of Caracas, where converge middle clbad and popular clbad sectors.