After 7:15 pm on Tuesday, power outages and short-term blackouts were reported in the Metropolitan Area of Caracas and several states of the country such as Carabobo, Zulia, Cojedes, Táchira, Mérida, Nueva Esparta and Sucre. Minister Diosdado Cabello stated that the service has been restored progressively.
The newly appointed Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, said that the blackouts and power outages recorded on the night of Tuesday, August 27, were due to a “terrorist attack,” which he blamed on “sectors of the right.”
In a telephone contact with Venezuelan Television (VTV), said that it was an attack on a transmission tower on line 765, which includes Valle de La Pascua and Valencia. He said that he also spoke with the Minister of Electric Energy, Jorge Eliéser Márquez, “and he is already working on a solution to the problem.”
After 7:15 pm this Tuesday, there were reports of power outages and short-term blackouts in the Metropolitan Area of Caracas and several states of the country such as Carabobo, Zulia, Cojedes, Táchira, Mérida, Nueva Esparta and Sucre. Cabello said that the service has been restored progressively and he hopes that by Tuesday electricity will be restored in all states of the country.
He also reported that during the blackout, security forces were deployed in some areas to avoid any contingency, while asking citizens to “be alert in every corner of Venezuela and to report any abnormal situation.”
“We knew that they were planning this type of attack not only on the electricity service but also on other services that are used massively by the population (…) they know that the agenda of violence is failing, that the agenda of peace is prevailing,” he stressed.
Minister Cabello stressed that they are working to “find those responsible for this new terrorist attack on the national electrical system (…) and the response will be forceful.”
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