teleSUR correspondent in Caracas, Gladys Quesada, updates on the consistent efforts of the Venezuelan authorities to restore the electric service in the entirety of the country, after last night’s attack on the National Electric Service. teleSUR
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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.