Ruling Socialist Party blames last week’s outage on U.S. sabotage, accusing President Donald Trump of orchestrating cyberattacks on the country’s main dam
The hallway of a mall is trashed after stores stand empty one day after it was looted in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on March 13, 2019.President Nicolas Maduro’s government scrambled on Wednesday to return power to western Venezuela following heavy looting in the country’s second largest city, while China offered to help the OPEC-member nation end its worst blackout on record.
Looters smashed shop windows and made off with merchandise in more than 300 businesses across the state, located along the border with Colombia, the Zulia chapter of business organization Fedecamaras said in a statement. The country’s top food company, Empresas Polar, said four facilities in Maracaibo, Venezuela’s biggest city after Caracas, had been sacked this week, with looters making off with water, soft drinks and pasta.In Maracaibo, once known for flashy displays of oil wealth, people buying food at the few business that remained open worried how they would continue eating. Gasoline lines stretched for blocks.
China on Wednesday offered to provide help and technical support to restore electricity, and backed Maduro’s assertion that the problem was the result of sabotage. With Maduro still in control of state functions and retaining the loyalty of the armed forces, Norway’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it would be prepared to act as a mediator or facilitator of talks between the government and opposition.
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