00:00And now again, we go live with our colleague and correspondent Glaris Quesada,
00:04who will give us a quick and precise update about how the Venezuelan people
00:09and also the government face the power grid in the country.
00:13Hello, Glaris.
00:15Yeah, Ana, hello. Thanks for once again having me here
00:19and receiving me with the information and the updates from Caracas, Venezuela.
00:24Yeah, currently the recovery, the reinstatement of the power grid,
00:29of the service of electricity here in Caracas is gradual, as you were saying,
00:34and is going step by step slowly in some areas,
00:37but because it depends on the capacity of recovery of the infrastructure
00:42and also because the damage was wide in some point, in some extent,
00:48but so far they are recovering this.
00:51Also, as you were referring, the President Nicolás Maduro Moros,
00:54he was addressing the national and international press
00:57from the Miraflores Palace, the seat of the government,
01:00and he was there in a meeting with some of the top authorities of the nation,
01:05that is to say, the Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino López,
01:08the Communications Minister, Freddy Iñáñez,
01:10and the Interior Justice and Peace Minister, Diosdado Cabello Rondón.
01:15Those are three of the ministers that were having statements
01:19and pronouncing themselves today,
01:22and so far this is what has happened lately in Venezuela and in Caracas.
01:28I have to say that the President, and you were given some data,
01:31but I want to stress other ones,
01:33that the President said that all the contingency plans,
01:37all of those strategies to face one attack like this one,
01:41you know, an attack of this kind and this magnitude,
01:45are available in the country,
01:47and you know that the Venezuelan authorities and the people
01:51have the expertise to confront this kind of attacks,
01:54this kind of terrorist actions against the national power grid,
01:59as it was done on March the 7th, back in 2019,
02:03when Juan Guaido was self-proclaimed as President of the nation,
02:07and he also was calling for this kind of actions
02:10and this extent or this type of violence in the country.
02:14Also, he was congratulating the people of Venezuela
02:17because he was saying that everyone was in peace, was calm,
02:20and they show a strong will and also a good judgment
02:26in their actions and in their ability to qualify
02:30what was going on in the country
02:32and not just to be carried away by the provocations
02:35of the right-wing and the attacks.
02:37He was also saying that everyone went out just to work
02:41and to live one regular normal day as they used to.
02:46And he was saying that this is not new, as he was referring,
02:52but this one has a, you know,
02:55this new attack has a psychological impact,
02:59has a psychological attempt, you know,
03:04aiming in the collective imaginary of the people,
03:07and this has an underbelly because it's not just to
03:10leave the country without service.
03:12It's also to impact on the stability and, you know,
03:17the spiritual peace of the people and to provoke them,
03:21to make them go out and to be outraged
03:24against an enemy that does not exist.
03:26So that's one of the strategies of this attack,
03:28and that was what the president was saying.
03:31And he reminded that prior to the elections of July 28th,
03:35there was a paramilitary group that was detained in Tashira
03:39and he was saying that that paramilitary group composed
03:42or made up by Venezuelan and Colombian people was,
03:46or had the intention to explode an electric station,
03:50also a power station in that state.
03:53So one of the many objectives,
03:55one of the many points of that group was to put in danger,
04:01to jeopardize the July 28th presidential elections,
04:05intending to impede the realization,
04:09the carrying on of these elections.
04:11But it was also stopped, it was pulled in a hat,
04:15and this is the result.
04:17So the president was saying that this is not new
04:19and that the right-wing extremist groups
04:22and the terrorist groups were announcing this
04:24in the social media back in August the 7th
04:27when they were saying that the anonymous group
04:29was announcing a hit against the national power grid
04:33as this one that Venezuela has suffered today.
04:36So that is the information.
04:38I have to stress that this attack against the national power grid
04:42affected 80% of the service in a country that is reliant on energy
04:48because of the transportation means, because of the hospitals,
04:52and because of all the services.
04:54But as the president was saying, they are prepared,
04:57they are aware of what is going on in the back of these attacks
05:02and that the nation is so prepared that, for example,
05:06all the hospitals, 79 hospitals here in Caracas,
05:09had a power backup so they never ceased to perform the surgeries,
05:17to give the services, to provide healthcare for the people.
05:21And that's so important to say because that tells a lot
05:24about the preparation, the preparedness, the readiness,
05:29the expertise of the Venezuelan government
05:31and the Venezuelan people facing this kind of actions
05:35and this kind of attacks.
05:37So, Ana, this is the information.
05:39This is what is going on in Venezuela and in Caracas.
05:41And we will be reporting so far and also in upcoming emissions.
05:46So now we give you back the signal.
05:48Back to you, Ana.
05:49Thank you, Clarice, very much for your updates
05:51and all the important things you said.
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