00:00And once again, from Caracas, Venezuela, our correspondent and colleague Gladys Quezada
00:06update us on how the Venezuelan people will face this Friday the 10th on the National
00:12Power Grid.
00:13Hello, Gladys.
00:14Can you tell us more about the topic, please?
00:18Yes, Ana, hello to you and all of our audience.
00:22Yes, currently, the National Power Grid is restoring the service, you know, once at a
00:29time because there is no possibility to restore everything at the same time.
00:34Also, the authorities have been explaining that this sabotage against the National Power
00:39Grid affected 80% of the coverage in the service.
00:44That's to say that moreover, the 24 states here in Venezuela have been affected by this
00:51attack on the power grid.
00:53Also, as we have been commenting and we have been abounding on, the people here in Venezuela
01:01and precisely here in Caracas, they have been finding strategies to sort off or to navigate
01:07a day like this one that have been special for saying that in one way because of the
01:13attack on the power grid and the lack of service in many homes and commerces here in the city.
01:19Also, as we were saying, many of them are just trading using cash.
01:24They did that so in the day and also they are finding other strategies.
01:30The Minister of Transport issued 250 Metrobus units, which is a kind or a type of bus here
01:37in the city for the mobility and the movement.
01:40I want to say that maybe in the news update regarding this topic, the president, Nicolás
01:48Maduro Moros, recently said that the recovery is moving on.
01:53The recovery of the national electoral grid is moving and it is expected that the total
02:01recovery will be done in a few hours.
02:04Also, as many people have been reporting on X and in other social media platforms, they
02:13have been receiving the service back in several parts of the city.
02:18It is expected that the city is also recovered.
02:21I have to say that many people have been reporting also that they had issues with the refrigeration
02:31and the keeping in store of their products.
02:33Moreover, the commercials, the market owners, but also they have been open and they have
02:39been selling their goods and their merchandise during the day.
02:43The city has never come to a stop, never come to a halt, and the city is still living their
02:50day by day, their daily lives, their daily activities with normalcy.
02:55Also, at this moment, I can say that this sabotage against the national power grid falls
03:02in line one month after the electoral victory of Nicolás Maduro Moros in the July 28th
03:08presidential elections.
03:10And it is not a coincidence that yesterday the General Attorney issued the third indictment
03:19against Edmundo González Urrutia, the third calling for him to be present and to go and
03:25face justice and face also the institutions, the judicial institutions here in Venezuela
03:32because of his contempt with the electoral law, his disregard for the calling of the
03:38Supreme Court of Justice and the electoral hall of that institution here in Venezuela.
03:45Also, and moreover, he was called by the authorities to present the so-called evidence that he
03:51had of whatever happened on July 28th regarding the electoral process and the sabotage suffered
03:58by the electoral system and the voting machines that day.
04:03So everything falls in line with other attacks that happened here on Tuesday and affected
04:08the northern zone of Caracas, and now also it falls in line with his calling by justice
04:14to Edmundo González Urrutia, who is in this contempt we were saying, and he is running
04:19away from justice, he is giving his back to the institutions of the country, and he is
04:25also irrespecting the institutions here in Venezuela.
04:29So this is one of the many steps, as the authorities have been saying, this is one of the many
04:36steps from the protocol of the right, from their script of attacks and violence against
04:42the people of Venezuela, because they know that when they attack the national power grid,
04:47they are hitting an infrastructure that corresponds to every service in the country, the health
04:54care institutions, the transportation, and every one of the paramount sectors that intervene
05:00in the normalcy of the country, in the normal development of daily activities, and because
05:06of that affects directly every single one of the Venezuelan people.
05:11But the government is recovering the electoral power grid, it's also identified what are
05:16the mistakes, the errors, and maybe the most weak link in this chain to solve the issue,
05:24and also they are saying that they will find the responsible ones and make them accountable
05:31to justice, so they will be taken into law, taken into court, and they will have to answer
05:39for their actions.
05:40So, moreover, this is the information, we are expecting more official declarations in
05:44this afternoon and night, and now I give you back the signal.
05:49Thank you very much, Clarice, for your update.
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