State-owned electricity operator Corpoelec blamed the outage on an ‘attack’ on the Guri Dam, one of the world’s largest hydroelectric projects
Policemen look to direct traffic at an intersection in Caracas after a power outage plunged much of the beleaguered Latin American country into darkness on March 7, 2019.A power outage left much of Venezuela in the dark early Thursday evening in what appeared to be one of the largest blackouts yet in a country where power failures have become increasingly common.
State-owned electricity operator Corpoelec blamed the outage on an “attack” on the Guri Dam, one of the world’s largest hydroelectric projects and the cornerstone of Venezuela’s electrical grid.“We’ve been targeted again in the power war,” Maj. Gen. Luis Motta, President Nicolas Maduro’s minister of electrical power, said in remarks aired on state television.
Motta did not indicate how much of the nation is engulfed in the outage, though local media reported that nearly all of Venezuela was experiencing a blackout. Motto said it would take “approximately three hours” for service to be restored, though patience was already running thin Thursday evening. The outage comes as Venezuela is in the throes of a power struggle between Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is recognized by about 50 nations as Venezuela’s rightful president. The opposition is blaming Maduro for the country’s soaring hyperinflation, food and medical shortages, while the embattled leader accuses Guaido of conspiring with the Trump administration to overthrow him from power.
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