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<h1 class="reader-title">Venezuelan Gov't Denounces Latest
Attack on Electric System</h1>
March 7, 2019</div>
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<p>The Minister of Popular Power For Electric Energy, Luis
Motta Dominguez stated on Thursday that the electric
system of <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Rejects-New-US-Sanctions-Against-Military-Officers-20190301-0020.html"
target="_blank">Venezuela</a> was attacked again on
Thursday afternoon.</p>
<p>Several states of the South American country were left
without electricity, Minister Motta stated that
authorities are working to put the system back up and
bring service back to normality.</p>
<p>The Electric Energy Minister Dominguez denounced that
this loss of power is due to sabotage in the area of
electric generation and transmission in Guri, in the
eastern Bolivar state.</p>
<p>According to Motta Dominguez, Venezuela "has been, once
again, the target of an attack in an Electric War (...)
But here we have a strong government, they will not
demoralize or defeat us. (...) they have failed in past
attempts and they will fail again."</p>
<p>The minister also reported that the work on the
restoration of electrical services could take up to
three hours. teleSUR correspondent Leonel Retamal
reported that 18 states of <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Renews-Obama-era-Emergency-Over-Venezuela-Maduro-Calls-It-Historic-Error-20190306-0006.html"
target="_blank">Venezuela</a> have reported
electricity cuts and that the Caracas Metro service was
delayed until the electricity was back was up.</p>
<p>The Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power for
Communications and Information, Jorge Rodriguez, offered
a statement to inform about the attack against
Venezuela's electrical system. Rodriguez said that the
electric system in Venezuela is back up in 60 percent of
the country, and it will only take a couple of hours to
go back to 100 percent normality.</p>
<p>Rodriguez also stated that the Venezuelan right-wing
opposition intended to sabotage the system for days, but
have failed. Calls the recuperation "a heroic act". He
highlighted the irony of United States Senator Marco
Rubio tweeted about the energy loss, only minutes after
it happened, "One byproduct of nationwide power outage
in #Venezuela is that much of the country is currently
offline with no access to cell phone service or internet
coverage," Rubio tweeted on Thursday afternoon. "Marco
Rubio has failed again," said Rodriguez, after the
electrical system was repaired. </p>
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