They denounce the blockade of Google, Twitter and Facebook in Venezuela after the announcement of Guaidó

Several of the Internet services related to

Venezuela

with the world, they are interrupted in the country,
as reported by the NetBlocks organization. In particular, services that allow you to send live content (video or audio, make a video call, etc.), such as Twitter with Periscope, Facebook, YouTube, Soundcloud, or Google Hangouts, have been removed. Google and Bing search engines also stopped working.

Indeed, CANTV, the state Internet provider, interrupts the services for its broadband connections (ABA, the service in Venezuela). It's been years since he was blocking access to some web pages, but now (

while Guaidó calls for a military uprising

) extends to generalized services. Countries like Congo, Egypt, Syria, or Iran have implemented similar actions in recent years.

How is he doing? As in Argentina, the service of

Internet

Venezuela is connected to the rest of the world by submarine cables (there are six that reach the Venezuelan coast) that it complements with satellite and terrestrial connections. In each of these connections, teams from Cantv (the main ISP in the country, although it's not the only one); reached a simple configuration to prevent access to Facebook, YouTube or Skype servers.

The alternative, for the moment, is to use a virtual private network (VPN), services to cross this barrier, hide the exchange of information and connect the user to a remote computer (a server) used in turn to access the blocked site or service. .

According to Speedtest's badessment, Venezuela is one of the countries in the world where the Internet is the worst in the world.
In March, only two countries (Turkmenistan and Yemen) had slower fixed broadband connections; As for mobile telephony, it is also among the slowest in the world. In 2012, the specialized firm Renesys (now owned by Oracle)
He had already located Venezuela among the countries where it was easier to disconnect the whole country.