Venezuela's embattled president and his opposition rival held dueling rallies as the country struggled with an ongoing power outage
Parts of Venezuela remained without power after 70% of the country had an outage Thursday and officials warned that hospitals were at risk. Addressing supporters Saturday, President Nicolas Maduro blamed the US for the blackout, saying the grid had been sabotaged, while the US has attributed the outage to the Maduro regime's"incompetence."View of Caracas during the partial power outage on March 9.
Power shortages and starvation are the result of the Maduro regime's incompetence," Pompeo tweeted.On Saturday, Pompeo posted a photo of Guaido's rally with the caption:"The people of #Venezuela have again responded to @jguaido's call to take to the streets in support of freedom and democracy. Public-sector workers, suffering economic & political repression, now stand with Guaido and the promise of a better future for Venezuela.
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