Blackout leaves Caracas without electricity and the Maduro government says it is a “new attack”

The government of Venezuela assured this Thursday that the national electricity system was the victim of a new “attack” this morning, after a “detachment” of high voltage lines was recorded in an area of ​​the Venezuelan capital that left several sectors without electricity .

“We want to inform all the Venezuelan people that there has been a new attack on the national electricity system, in this case (…) a detachment on lines 1 and 2 of line 69 Kb of Papelón Convento, here in the Capital District”Electric Power Minister Nestor Reverol told the state channel VTV.

The minister offered the information minutes after several areas of the Venezuelan capital began to recover electricity service.

According to Reverol, only 30% of the capital region was affected by the blackout.

“Fortunately, thanks to the immediate reaction of our workforce (…) we have already recovered almost 90% of the load”added.

The minister also said that the detachment of the high voltage lines, which are located in the mountain that surrounds the Venezuelan capital, known as Ávila or Guarira Repano, produced an outbreak of fire that was already controlled by firefighters.

At the site there is a “special team” from the National Electricity Corporation (Corpoelec), from the Corps of Criminal and Criminal Scientific Investigations (Cicpc) evaluating, analyzing and investigating the causes of the detachment of the high voltage lines.

He also assured that he will continue to denounce the “systematic destabilization” of the electricity system.

“This boycott sustained by unscrupulous people who intend to create chaos and unrest in the population”, Held.

Finally, he affirmed that at this time the national electricity service is stabilized and that “there is no national impact.”

However, areas of the state of Zulia, located in the northwest of the country and affected by constant blackouts, are without electricity service, while other places such as the central city of Valencia have registered four power failures so far this day.

Venezuela It has been experiencing constant power failures in different areas of its territory for more than a decade, but in the last three years blackouts have been registered more frequently and in the Venezuelan capital.

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