Venezuela: huge power outage leaves much of country in the dark

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1. Sabotage. Again. At the worlds most secured (by FANB) hydroelectric station?

Electric War" denounces Motta Domínguez: Sabotage to the Guri plant would be the cause of the blackout in 18 states of Venezuela
By: Aporrea | Thursday, 03/07/2019 07:14 PM

translated from Spanish

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7/3 / 2019.- For several hours this Thursday, 18 Venezuelan states have been without electric service, affecting transportation and communications throughout the country.

The uncertainty was added to the service cut due to the lack of information on the part of the State authorities. It was not until more than an hour after the blackout, that the Minister of Electric Power announced that the reason for the cutback is again sabotage, in this case affecting the Guri hydroelectric plant.

"We have been subjected again to the electric war, this time they attacked us in the generation and transmission in the state of Bolívar, specifically in El Guri, in the backbone of electricity," said Luis Motta Domínguez, Minister of Electric Energy.

"They sabotaged the generation in Guri ... This is part of the electric war against the State, we will not allow it! We are working to recover the service," the company added via Twitter.

Since 2013, Venezuela's power plants remain militarized, on the orders of President Nicolás Maduro.

The government expects to restore the service within three hours.

Venezuela for several years has been suffering from power cuts, especially in the interior of the country, which have been attributed by the government to drought or excess rainfall, El Niño, cable cuts, fires, wild animal incursions as killings and iguanas or deliberate acts of sabotage. Experts in the field of electricity generation and some CORPOELEC workers attribute them to the lack of maintenance and spare parts.

https://www.aporrea.org/energia/n339188.html

These guys haven't an original thought in their head anymore.