The government warns that there will be justice

The Venezuelan government warned that There will be justice for the new electrical attack that caused a national blackout this Fridaysince 4:50 local time (8:50 GMT), for which the authorities blame the opposition grouped in what they call the extreme right.

“Those who attack the electrical system, those who plan these activities against our people, can rest assured that the State agencies will reach out to them, rest assured that there will be justice here,” said Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello in a telephone conversation with state channel VTV.

The official denounced that the electrical system was subjected to a new criminal attack, after which the government – he said – is doing everything it has to do to restore the service in a very short time, with the application of security protocols to avoid another “attack.”

He said that the Executive already had information about alleged attacks against this service, including the one that occurred on Tuesday, which affected, he said then, Caracas and 8 of the 23 states of the country, which he also accused opposition sectors of.

He said that some sectors of the capital have already begun to receive electricity, a process that -he said- will be carried out little by little, without giving an approximate time frame for its resolution.

Previously, the Minister of Communication, Freddy Ñáñez, said that the “sabotage” of this Friday “is part of the coup plan” that “they have assumed” -he said- the standard-bearer of the largest opposition coalition -the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)-, Edmundo González Urrutia, and his greatest ally, María Corina Machado, whose political disqualification the official hopes will remain for “the rest of the days.”

This blackout occurs when the country is experiencing a political crisis after the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Nicolás Maduro the winner based on results that are still unknown in a disaggregated form, which is considered by anti-Chavez supporters and a good part of the international community as one of the signs of “fraud” denounced by the PUD, which insists on González Urrutia’s “victory.”

The power outage occurred despite the “special 24-hour patrol and surveillance plan” of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) in all electrical installations, implemented since the end of June by order of Maduro, who then denounced that “groups of the fascist extreme right” were preparing an “electrical war” to “harm” the country.

Various states in the country frequently experience power outages, which in some cases last up to a week, according to reports from users in the interior regions and working-class areas of Caracas.

The last major national blackout occurred 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.