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Government Assigns Power Outages to "Sabotage" Opponents to Create Popular Discontent, Opposition Brings Them to Infrastructure Deterioration
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July 31, 2018, 2:46 pm
A power outage has occurred in transportation and communication services from the Venezuelan capital reached 80% of the city of Caracas due to a technical failure – reported the government.
The incident caused chaos in transport and communication services in the Venezuelan capital.
"The interruption of electrical service occurs in 80% of Caracas.The fault has occurred at the Santa Teresa substation.We are working to resume service," said Luis Motta, the Minister of Transport. Energy.
The blackout affected the areas of Miranda and Vargas in the north of the country, as well as the airport Maiquetía, which
"The blackout caused traffic jams, due the malfunction of traffic lights and the Caracas metro, in addition to intermittent cellular and Internet services. "
"We stopped at Immigration for about an hour." Estefanía Freire, who was waiting to take an international flight to Maiquetía, told AFP
that these power cuts are frequent in Venezuela, especially in the interior of the country. In several western states, like the oil tanker Zulia, a daily ration of 12 hours is applied
The government attributes power cuts to the "sabotage" of its opponents to create popular discontent, while opposition binds them in
In Caracas, power outages are less frequent but, between December and February, some were recorded for several hours
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