Caracas, Aug 31 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that “an account called Anonymous» of «the “extreme right” had already threatened with a national blackout, after a power outage occurred early this morning, leaving a large part of the country without electricity, caused – the president said – by a “heart attack” of the Guri system, the main electricity generating facility located in the state of Bolívar (south, bordering Brazil).
«An account called Anonymous, we already know who operated it, who hired it, who financed. I won’t say any more. An Anonymous account at the service of the war of hate against Venezuela threatened on several occasions with a national blackout,” he said. Ripe during a broadcast on the state channel VTV.
The president also showed an alleged publication on X from “August 7” that he linked to the group of hackers, which he says “We apologize to the people of Venezuela “because of the attack that the national electrical system will receive,” while stating that the account is “anti-Venezuelan” and “works directly with the CIA.”
The president said the aim of the attack was to “liquidate” Guri, which he blamed «fascist currents» who “pretended to be opposition.”
He said that they have “determined the mechanisms that were used” in the attack, but did not provide further details, since – he said – the investigation “is in full process” in order “to achieve justice in this case.”
“The investigations are advanced, accelerated, and will be furthered,” advancement.
The president said that behind this attack there is a “fascist war room” that is -he said- in the United States.
“There are technical details that I should not give, I don’t know if I will give them later, in the days to come,” he said.
The president reported that “more than 90% of the country’s supermarkets” were «activated» with its “self-generation plants”, as well as “100% of the popular and municipal markets” and “almost 60%” of “general commerce”, while the Internet service is being ““restoring.”
He also stated that “practically 100% of the health system” worked with its “self-generated” electricity, while he assured that a “bone marrow transplant was performed in one of the hospitals in Caracas,” without specifying which one.
Maduro reported that the authorities remain in Guri for «restore normality» of the electric service so that the people “continue to enjoy the right to peace,” although he did not offer a balance of the electrical restoration in the states of the country.
The blackout on Friday affected most states, according to reports, and was the second in Venezuela after the one in March 2019, when a good part of the country was without electricity for four days, for which the Government pointed to the opposition and the United States and Colombia, then led by Donald Trump and Ivan Duke, respectively.
