Venezuela's opposition party Voluntad Popular (VP), led by Leopoldo López and in which Juan Guaidó has done much of his career, said Tuesday that Venezuelans face recurring failures in basic water, electricity and domestic gas services.
“Although (Nicolás) Maduro's regime wants to show that Venezuela has settled and that nothing is happening anymore, the reality is different. Every day we Venezuelans face the recurring failures of basic services,” the training wrote on its Twitter account.
He added that, although in the Caribbean country there is a “revival” of “cultural and musical moves”, in Venezuelan homes “refrigerators remain empty because the cost of food exceeds the salary of millions of citizens.”
“Today we cannot honor our history, because there are communities in which Venezuelans spend at least 18 hours without electricity, months without domestic gas and even years without water,” said Voluntad Popular.
The message comes from the commemoration of the event that occurred 212 years ago, when six provinces of Venezuela ignored the mandate of Captain General Vicente Emparan, the highest representative of the Spanish crown in the country.
This fact is known in Venezuela as the first step that led Venezuelan territory to free itself from the Spanish crown.
Officials of the Venezuelan National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) patrolled some installations of the electrical system on Monday after a blackout occurred in several areas in 10 of the Caribbean country's 23 states.
The state-owned Corporación Eléctrica Nacional (Corpoelec) confirmed on Sunday that blackouts were recorded in several areas in 10 states of the country, after social media users and organizations warned of outages early in the morning.
Corpoelec reported that its “workforce” was carrying out “maneuvers” to regain service in several municipalities in the states of Aragua, Carabobo, Guárico, Trujillo, Mérida, Zulia, Yaracuy, Cojedes, Lara and Barinas.
The electrical installations have been in the custody and control of the FANB since 2013, despite this, the authorities are responsible for the cuts to “attacks”, “attacks” or “sabotage” organized mainly by the US and Colombia.
In the first quarter of 2022, power failures decreased by 64.6% compared to the same period in 2021, when 38,004 were recorded, compared to 13,423 service interruptions computed during the first three months of this year, according to EFE the Committee for People Affected by Blackouts, an independent body that accounts for power outages.
(With information from EFE)
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