| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/09/04, 2:06 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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An outage at Venezuela’s main power network left 70% of the country without power on Wednesday, causing traffic chaos in much of the capital, Caracas. President Nicolas Maduro
said 14 of 23 states lost power for much of the day, blaming "sabotage"
Venezuela’s main power distribution network failed Tuesday, depriving 70 percent of the country of electricity and creating traffic chaos in much of Caracas, which normally escapes such outages.Electrical Energy Minister Jesse Chacon said on state TV that the failure was in the “backbone” that carries electricity from the BajoCaroni region, where 60 percent of Venezuela’s power is generated.President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday night that 14 of 23 states lost power for much of the day and blamed “sabotage,” which he did not detail. He said service was “progressively restored” with some exceptions, including the oil-producing state of Zulia.Power that was lost at midday was restored in Caracas by nightfall.
Despite possessing the world’s largest proven oil reserves, Venezuela has been plagued in recent years by worsening power outages. They have, however, rarely affected metropolitan Caracas, home to more than one-sixth of the country’s 28 million people.
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