María Corina Machado on blackouts in Nueva Esparta: “It is one more symptom of the country’s deep crisis”
The opposition leader María Corina Machado sent a message of solidarity this Wednesday to the inhabitants of the Nueva Esparta statewho for more than a week have been suffering with blackouts of up to 20 hours due to the explosion registered at the Muscar Gas Plant, in Monagas.
«Margarita is being punished by a regime that has never prioritized her, that treats her with absolute indolence. What we are seeing and what you are suffering is the infinite incapacity and corruption of this regime, because The electrical crisis in Margarita is just one more symptom of this deep crisis that the country is going through and what we Venezuelans face in basic services, in the shortage of food, medicines, the absence of well-paid work and this inflation that is already beginning to break out again. Because this is a consequence of a failed economic and political model that will never be able to work,” he said in an audio shared on social networks.
Machado highlighted that The lack of electricity is something that not only affects daily life and jobs but also mental health.
«Not having food, not being able to take the children to school, not being able to sleep well, your appliances being damaged, there being tragedies in medical care. This is something absolutely inconceivable anywhere in the world, in the 21st century. But much more so in a country like Venezuela, which in the past exported electricity, and which also has the potential to become the energy hub of all of America,” he added.
María Corina Machado asks for calm to those affected by the blackouts in Nueva Esparta
He invited those affected “to remain calm, to organize and to immediately demand and pressure the regime to take measures that can restore – once and for all – the electrical service. “We know that profound change was the mandate we gave ourselves to have a government that will put people first, and that is what we decided on July 28.”
María Corina Machado assured that they have a plan so that Nueva Esparta “Come out of the darkness of humiliation and you will have, as each one of you deserves, a bright future.”
«I love you very much and I accompany you very closely at this time. May God bless us and the Virgin of the Valley keep us,” he expressed.
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