Electrical blackouts brings violence, looting to Venezuela

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Deaths and looting by blackouts

Who is responsible for the four lives charged by the blackouts in Táchira state? Officials of the Nicolás Maduro regime, such as the Minister of Electric Power and president of the "socialist company" Corporación Eléctrica Nacional (Corpoelec), Luis Motta Domínguez, have not said anything about the pain and mourning that four Venezuelan families suffer at the moment.

The situation generated by the constant electrical failures that are registered in the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, go beyond a refrigerator damaged by a blackout: Venezuelans who have died in hospitals because the equipment that kept them alive they were left without power, or protests that degenerate into riots and looting, have been the most recent consequences of irregularities presented in the National Electric System after 19 years of "humanist and socialist" management.

Electrical failures

And it is only in recent days, nothing more in the state Táchira, the Chavista governor of that entity, Laidy Gómez, confirmed the death of three people due to recurrent blackouts that are registered in the entity. The deceased are not just another figure, they are lives that were lost and that mourn three more families in the country: at the Padre Justo de Rubio Hospital, in the municipality of Junín, they could not save a baby of only four months. It suffered from respiratory problems. They could not do anything for a grandfather of 74 years, who needed to be revived ... The reason for both deaths? The equipment required by the medical staff to perform their duties collapsed, because when they were without electricity, they turned to the power plant at the health center, which did not work either because the battery was burned as a result of the blackouts.

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Riots and looting

In the same Andean region, this time in the state of Trujillo, during the night of Sunday, March 10, while almost the entire country slept, the streets of Varela were a hotbed of social discontent, whose spark was the constant blackouts recorded in that city. "Guarimbas", protests, threats to burn down the mayor's office and other offices of public agencies, toured the city until the afternoon of the next day, to demand the immediate solution of the failures in the energy supply that have caused huge losses to the humble families of the area, ranging from televisions that were unusable, to refrigerators and other equipment damaged due to irregularities in the electric power.

In the midst of the riots there was the death of a man of 27 years, identified as Xavier de Jesús Viloria, who was hit by a stone in the head when the demonstrators faced the security forces that tried to suppress the demonstrations.

Likewise, Diario de Los Andes confirmed that in the revolt the looting of several businesses was recorded, among them, a butcher shop, a fish shop, several stores of the Arichuna Shopping Center, a Mercal, a pharmacy, as well as damages to a vehicle dealer.

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http://revistazeta.net/2018/03/17/muertes-saqueos-apagones/