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Venezuela: 11 arrested for national blackout, says Interior Minister

Venezuela: 11 arrested for national blackout, says Interior Minister

September 5, 2024, 7:44 AM

September 5, 2024, 7:44 AM

“There are already detainees, we transfer them to Caracas”, dI met the Minister of the Interior of VenezuelaDiosdado Cabello, on his program ‘Con el mazo dando’, without providing further details, while stating that “there will be justice.”

Cabello said that “they know,” referring to the opposition, that when they “attack the electrical system” they are dealing “a cross-cutting blow,” because, in the event of a blackout, the water supply and the operation of hospitals are affected.

The accusation has been rejected by the anti-Chavez oppositionwho has said that the “deficiency” of electricity, health and other services is due to the “laziness, corruption and incompetence” of the Government.

Maduro speaks of a “heart attack” due to “fascist currents”

Last Friday, August 30, the president Nicolas Maduro He said the power outage was caused by a “heart attack” on the Guri system, the main power generation facility located in the state of Bolívar (south, bordering Brazil), perpetrated – he said – by “fascist currents” that “pretended to be the 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 blackout affected most states, According to reports, it was the second in Venezuela after the one in March 2019, when a large part of the country was without electricity for four days, for which the Government pointed the finger at the opposition and the United States and Colombia, led at the time by Donald Trump and Iván Duque, respectively.

rml (efe, @ConElMazoDando)

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