President Maduro Assures That Those Responsible for the Attacks on the Electrical System Will Face the Justice

President Maduro with Authorities of Venezuela, Aug 30, 2024 Photo: Prensa Presidencial

August 30, 2024 Hour: 10:44 pm

“The investigations are advanced, they will deepen,” said Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, said that the electric sabotage perpetrated by the extreme right on Friday morning is being investigated, while declaring that justice cannot be delayed.

During the assessment he made after the sabotage, the Venezuelan president stressed that “we are overcoming fascism and hatred, but justice cannot be delayed. As head of state, on behalf of a people, I ask that justice be done against the material and intellectual perpetrators of this attack. I ask for justice to consolidate peace”.

“The investigations are advanced, they will be deepened,” remarked Nicolás Maduro, while stating that “we are working this heart attack of the Venezuelan electrical system in peace. Venezuela is at peace working”.

After mentioning the background of this electric attack related to the elections of 28 July, Nicolas Maduro insisted that the mechanisms used to disable the Guri reservoir, which he considered the «heart of the electrical system», have been identified.

Recalling the warning given about destabilizing attempts before, during and after the elections of 28J, the head of state stressed that on Venezuela “there is a permanent conspiracy and attack by a fascist sector allied with the international right-wing led and financed by the American empire”.

While he categorized what happened this Friday as a fascist criminal attack, Maduro insisted that it was the most powerful attack they have planned to carry out. He stressed that the objective was to liquidate Guri.

“It is a malicious attack, full of revenge, hatred that comes from the fascist currents who have taken over the political sectors that claimed to be political opposition and that the people already clearly identifies, that the people identifies him and knows what his origin is,” he said.

Nicolás Maduro pointed out that the protection systems we have built have worked. “We have preserved Guri,” he said while alerting that the generation systems had been attacked.

After thanking the entire people, Maduro said that “we have learned lessons”, referring to the 2019 attack against this reservoir and the harassment of the extreme right in the country and international accomplices.

“We know where the attacks come from. This people has a gigantic wisdom to know what is to be done at every moment, in every juncture and circumstance”, he insisted. He stressed that the attacks are conceived from Colombia by a sector linked to former presidents Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque.

After also thanking for the moral and spiritual strength, he said that Venezuelans are better prepared and in better conditions than in 2019.

“The process of restoration (is) step by step and safe,” said the President after the activation of the mechanisms to counter criminal aggression against the National Electric Service.

Nicolás Maduro reported that the transport sector is active, while the supermarket sector is restored at more than 90 percent, the popular and municipal markets at 100 percent and commerce at almost 60 percent.

He mentioned that in Caracas, in the midst of the energy situation, a bone marrow transplant was performed. In this regard, he thanked the medical staff, health workers and those who contributed to the continued functioning of the health system.

In parallel, the governor of Táchira state, Freddy Bernal, reported on the disbanding of a criminal gang that planned to carry out terrorist acts against the Regional and National Electric System.

The members of this gang were arrested at the Ureña substation, where they intended to exploit the transformers and cut off electricity in Táchira, Mérida, Trujillo, Barinas, Apure, Zulia and Yaracuy.