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A blackout plunged most of Venezuela into darkness early Friday morning, according to Communications Minister Freddy Nanez, who blamed the event on a “sabotage” of the national grid.
Venezuela experiences frequent blackouts, which President Nicolas Maduro’s government routinely attributes to unproven conspiracies to overthrow him.
Nanez told the state-run VTV channel that on August 30, an electrical sabotage took place in Venezuela, a sabotage against the national electrical system, which has affected almost the entire national territory,
He added that all 24 states are reporting total or partial loss of electricity supply.
The worst countrywide outage to strike Venezuela, in March 2019, lasted several days.
Maduro’s government has accused the United States and the political opposition of orchestrating the power failures.
Opposition leaders and experts, however, blame corruption and a lack of investment and expertise for the outages.
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