translated from Spanish: Guided attributed the blackout to “corruption” and called to protest

The President of the National Assembly and opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, said this Friday (08.03.2019) that the blackout affecting much of Venezuela since Thursday afternoon is a consequence of “corruption” of Miraflores, where is located the headquarters of Gobi ERNO, and called on citizens to take to the streets on Saturday so that cease what the opposition calls “usurpation” of the Presidential Office.
“Venezuela, now stronger that ever, returns to the streets around the country. We return to the streets and not leave them! “, said this Friday guided, recognized as the country’s interim President by more than 50 Governments, in front of hundreds of supporters in a ceremony at a plaza in Caracas.” The Court forced the Government to suspend working hours and classes in all schools.
While in some areas of the capital and the State of Miranda slowly began to recover electrical service, in other regions of the country the lack of supply extends for nearly 24 hours. “To achieve the return of the light, which will stop the darkness, we must stand firm, United and mobilized always. We are very close, very close, achieve it”, said guided.
Ripe supports workers according to experts quoted by the daily El Nacional, the blackout of these last two days is one of the largest in the history of the country. Blackouts are common in Venezuela, and the specialists accuse that the lack of investment in infrastructure is responsible for this. However, the Government often accused “sabotage” and has even arranged military surveillance of the generators.
President Nicolas Maduro said on Twitter that it gave its “full support” to the workers of the national electricity system and stressed that “maintaining an intense work to retrieve the service”. He added that he admires “the Venezuelan people resisting this new attack by the enemies of the homeland with gallantry. We will win! “.” Previously, the Government had attributed the situation to “a large-scale attack” technical and cyber against the area of generation of the Guri dam, in Bolívar (South), the main central State hydroelectric Venezuelan.
“Today still excuse are scoundrels that this is sabotage, when in 2009 they declared a power emergency. A decade. A decade. They invested 100,000 million (…). They are inefficient, they are corrupt,”protested guided.  The AFP Agency said that most of the country is in “total chaos”, with collapsed hospitals, flight cancellation, households without water, closed business, meter out of service and networks of telephony and internet with severe problems.
Due to the fact that the borders are closed, Venezuela was cut off completely.

Original source in Spanish