The Vice Minister for Communication, Culture and Tourism, Jorge Rodríguez, attributed the blackout registered on Monday night in the country, to a fire that took place in the courtyard of 765 KV of the Hydroelectric Power Plant “Simón Bolívar”, located in the dam of Guri, in Bolívar state.
In his official account on Twitter, the officer published a set of images that record the criminal action that was aimed at “definitively damaging the generation and transmission of the electrical load”, he wrote.
The fire, which was suppressed in its entirety in the morning hours of Tuesday, affected three autotransformers and the wiring for electrical transmission.
Rodriguez was emphatic in pointing out that this action was provoked by factors of the Venezuelan right wing, in their eagerness to attack the Government of President Nicolás Maduro: “The right wing has no limits in their ambition and homicidal desire”.
Last March 7, a cyber-attack against the National Electric System (SEN) was perpetrated from the US cities of Chicago and Houston, an action attributed to the US Southern Command.
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