Nationwide blackout eases in Venezuela as Maduro govt blames opposition ‘sabotage’

Electric power began to return in Venezuela on Friday afternoon after a widespread outage in the capital Caracas and other parts of the country that the government of President Nicolas Maduro blamed on “sabotage” by the opposition without citing evidence. The country's communications minister said in a voice message on Telegram that all 24 of Venezuela’s states had been at least partially impacted, adding that the outage was a “desperate” attempt by Maduro’s opponents to violently oust him as president.

Aug 30, 2024 - 18:00
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Nationwide blackout eases in Venezuela as Maduro govt blames opposition ‘sabotage’
Electric power began to return in Venezuela on Friday afternoon after a widespread outage in the capital Caracas and other parts of the country that the government of President Nicolas Maduro blamed on “sabotage” by the opposition without citing evidence. The country's communications minister said in a voice message on Telegram that all 24 of Venezuela’s states had been at least partially impacted, adding that the outage was a “desperate” attempt by Maduro’s opponents to violently oust him as president.