After suffering from an electrical sabotage for three days, power in Venezuela is being restored.
After three days of little light and power in Venezuela, the country’s electrical system is starting to return, particularly in the capital of Caracas.
A cyber attack perpetrated Thursday against the El Guri hydroelectric plant control system left the Venezuelan population without electricity since then.
According to the Venezuelan government, this nation-wide blackout was incited by foreign-backed factions trying to destabilizing the government President Nicolas Maduro. The president stressed that the attack “affected everyone equally without political distinction.”
The automatized control system of the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant, which is popularly known as El Guri, was attacked. Inside this high-tech power plant, three of five backup generators were electronically sabotaged, Jorge Rodriguez, Sector Vice President of Communication, Tourism and Culture revealed Thursday in a statement.
On Friday Rodriguez clarified that the circulating reports that 79 people dying in hospitals because of the electrical failure were “false.”
“They didn’t know we had a generator system set up to prevent from happening everything they are saying has happened,” Rodriguez said to the press.