2024-08-31 02:25:14
Electricity in Caracas began to return to normal this Friday after 12 hours of general blackout throughout Venezuela, which the government said “sabotage” of the opposition amid their complaints of electoral fraud.
“We are doing it right, doing it right, taking action through recommendations, with security,” President Nicolás Maduro spoke on radio and television, without commenting on the system’s recovery figures.
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The blackout was reported at 4:40 a.m. local time (8:40 a.m. GMT) and was seriously affected. “total or partial” 24 states in this country where electrical failures are frequent. AFP correspondents confirmed the temporary recovery of work in many areas of the capital, Caracas. Users on social networks also reported some renewal, which extended to other states.
“It’s an attack on Guri,” The president spoke in relation to the Simón Bolívar hydroelectric plant, the first producer of electricity in the country, located in that city in southern Venezuela. “The attack they carried out, the failure they planned and the extent of what they did” had “one goal: to break Guri, it was a treacherous attack.”
“Used to”
Blackouts have been frequent in Venezuela for decades, especially in the provinces. The government often attributes them to disruption efforts by the opposition, but experts reject that argument and link them to lack of investment, inefficiency and corruption.
“It was an attack full of revenge, an attack full of hatred from the fascists,” Maduro continues to use the word with which it refers directly to the opposition. And it connects “in that war room” to the United States, another permanent enemy.
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The Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, previously reported that “the network is beginning to gain strength.”. “It’s a process that happens little by little,” and said on the state channel VTV.
“Somebody knows these things mentally,” Leticia Quiroga, a 30-year-old civil servant in Caracas, told AFP. “I think it’s a little darker than it is here every day,” said Elena Jiménez, a 66-year-old housewife in Maracaibo, the capital of Zulia state, where power outages are frequent.
Position voting
The fall was recorded a month after elections in which Maduro was declared re-elected for a third consecutive six-year term, until 2031.
The opposition led by María Corina Machado is convinced that Edmundo González Urrutia won the elections and has the evidence to prove it. The fraudulent complaint is seen by Chavismo as part of a conspiracy against Maduro. During the campaign, in fact, they opposed the alleged plans to influence the vulnerable electronic system.
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Maduro’s vote was unknown to the United States, the European Union and many Latin American countries. The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is trying to mediate between the government and the opposition to open a major political crisis, insisted this Friday on the publication of the information review.
Calls to the opposition candidate
González Urrutia, 75, was called to the prosecutor’s office on Friday, which opened a criminal investigation against him. It is the third call, after neglecting the previous ones. A new lack of opposition, in reserve, will lead to the issuance of an arrest warrant.
It is not clear how the procedure was carried out amid the national blackout, although the VTV channel reported the scandal without referring to a possible arrest warrant.
The protest published on the website copies more than 80% of the voting records that show González Urrutia as the winner. This initiative is the exact focus of the reference: “Usurpation of services” and “Making a Public Document” of the National Electoral Commission (CNE), which does not publish the details of the table-by-table audit as required by law. Violent crimes carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
Maduro has demanded prison terms for González Urrutia and Machado. He also blamed them for violent actions in the post-election protests, in which 27 people died. -with two soldiers-, almost 200 injured and more than 2,400 detained, including small children.
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