Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, as well as in several states.
Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states. President Nicolas Maduro's government blamed the outage, which it said began about 4:50 a.m., on “electrical sabotage” following a disputed election. Freddy Nanez, the communications minister, said officials were working to restore power. “Nobody will take away our peace and tranquility of the Venezuelan people,” he wrote in a message shared with journalists on Telegram.
That was the case on Tuesday, when a brownout affected Caracas and several central states. Maduro has been tightening his grip on power following last month's disputed election. Maduro was declared the winner in the fraught July 28 vote despite strong evidence that opposition candidate Edmundo González won by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. The move drew international condemnation that the vote lacked transparency.
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