Skip to content
May 24, 2022
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Reddit
  • Telegram
  • TikTok
  • LinkedIn
Orinoco Tribune – News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

Orinoco Tribune – News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

From Venezuela and made by Venezuelan Chavistas

Primary Menu
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Our Sources
    • Venezuelan Sources
    • International Sources
  • About us
    • About us
    • Who we are – Becoming a Volunteer
    • Contact us
    • Editorial guidelines for contributors
  • Categories
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Security and Defense
    • International
      • Africa
      • Asia
      • Europe
      • Oceania
      • US/Canada
    • Latin America and ALBA-TCP
      • South America
      • Central America and the Caribbean (+Mexico)
    • Ideology-Commune-Labor
    • Health-Education-Sport-Culture-Technology
    • Solidarity and Social Movements
    • OT Originals
  • Support us
    • Tax Deductible Donations: AfGJ Fiscal Sponsorship Program
    • PayPal and Credit Cards
    • Patreon (recurrent donations)
Light/Dark Button
Subscribe
  • Home
  • News
  • Venezuelans Working to Recover From the Blackout
  • News
  • Security and Defense

Venezuelans Working to Recover From the Blackout

orinocotribune March 14, 2019 4 min read

With social policies and collective initiatives in Venezuela

The State supplied water to the main points, such as hills and hospitals and guaranteed food distribution.

 

Caracas, March 13th, 2019.- The country has not flown through the air. It could have happened if you take into account the depth of the impact generated by the national blackout that began on Thursday at 5 pm and the supply has not yet been fully restored (in some parts of Venezuela’s countryside). The news this Tuesday is that in some places the light has just returned, as in the city of Maracaibo, or in the Commune El Maizal, in the state of Lara.

The consequences of the blackout were multiple, the ways to deal with them too. Both by the government and spontaneous initiatives. The policies, for example, were to supply tanker trucks in strategic places, such as hills and hospitals, and to guarantee food distribution through different mechanisms. It is about normalizing a country that was already in a situation of prolonged difficulties, after an attack of a magnitude still difficult to calculate.

RELATED CONTENT: Ten Micro Chronicles of Resistance in the Middle of the Blackout

The response could not cope with the magnitude of the demand, for example, of water, since the pumping system was affected by the blackout, which resulted in collective initiatives, such as opening a pipe in El Valle or San Agustín , working neighborhoods in Caracas, to fill bottles and bottles. There are many images of people queuing to get water in any place where it can be obtained, shops, filling places, cisterns, springs.

Faced with a situation of these characteristics, one could have expected a massive multiplication of spontaneous outbreaks of protest, violence, mobilizations, outside of what the opposition tries to summon. There were acts like looting, for example, in the Sambil shopping center in Maracaibo, where according to the mall’s general manager, it was a group of three hundred people who managed to knock down the main fence, façade and door until they entered the shopping center. There were several cases, although one can not speak of a picture that overflowed and massified in an unstable, dangerous scenario, due to the facts themselves and the calls for (looting from the opposition activists and politicians). The Attorney General informed that an investigation against Guaidó will be initiated for his alleged participation in the sabotage of the national electricity system.

The weather in the streets of Caracas during the day has been of concern, resolution, everyday life, restoration of shops, electronic payment systems, transportation, although the metro system is not yet active. Whoever arrives at the city does not encounter a devastating scene but with a scenario of accumulated and new difficulties, a Venezuelan idiosyncrasy that allows facing adversities in a surprising way for an outsider’s gaze, a chavismo activated in its dimension of popular government and organization, a tranquility in return marked by the awareness that nothing has ended, but that it is at the center of a national and international conflict.

RELATED CONTENT: Opposition Activist to Guaido Calling for Looting: “Brother, Are You Going Crazy”

This last dimension has been centrally on the table yesterday morning with the decision of the Venezuelan government, announced by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, to end the talks with the United States for the establishment of offices of interest, and the order the US diplomatic staff to leave Venezuela in the next 72 hours.

On the other hand, the administration of Donald Trump included in the budget request for the year 2020, the sum of 500 million dollars for “the transition in Venezuela”, ratifying the policy and the probable prolongation of the conflict.

The technical mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations (UN), which was received on Monday by the foreign minister and yesterday held a meeting in the National Assembly. In the next few days, according to the foreign minister, the UN mission will meet with institutions of the Bolivarian government and the public authorities.

In this context, they will prepare a report on the situation within a very complex context, where there are conflicting data, often without confirmation. The clearest case is that of the dead that would have caused the blackout: according to opposition spokesmen were first 17, then a journalist said there were 296, including 80 neonates, a figure that was later denied by the president of the College of Physicians of the Zulia state and it was not withdraw. The Minister of Health, for his part, affirmed that there have been no deaths in public hospitals due to the blackout.

Yesterday there were protests called by the opposition, although they only gathered a few hundred demonstrators. But the events move with great speed, the days overlap with the nights, and the confirmation of the facts always requires verification by different sources. The truth, we know, is one of the main victims in these contexts.

 

Source URL: Pagina 12

Translated by JRE

 

Want More?

Don't want to be a victim of the Algorithm?

SIGN UP TO RECEIVE OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER WITH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VENEZUELA

We don’t spam! Read our privacy policy for more info.

orinocotribune
Website | + posts
  • orinocotribune
    https://orinocotribune.com/author/orinocotribune/
    November 22, 2018
    International sabotage attempt against Plan Vuelta a Patria denounced
  • orinocotribune
    https://orinocotribune.com/author/orinocotribune/
    November 22, 2018
    Alí Rodríguez Araque dies
  • orinocotribune
    https://orinocotribune.com/author/orinocotribune/
    November 22, 2018
    López Obrador defends Nicolás Maduro during interview
  • orinocotribune
    https://orinocotribune.com/author/orinocotribune/
    November 22, 2018
    The black market Dollar misfortune of the Venezuelan economy
Tags: electric blackout Human Rights terrorism US Imperialism

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Continue Reading

Previous Previous post:

ALBA, Iran, Russia and China Express “Unlimited Support” for Venezuela

Next Next post:

Light Returns to Venezuela and We Will See Everything We do Not See Now

Tax deductible donations

One time donations

Recurrent donations

Calendar

May 2022
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Apr    

NEWS: Most Viewed 72 Hours

Categories

Subscribe to Our Weekly Newsletter

We keep your data private and share your data only with third parties that make this service possible. Read our Privacy Policy.

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

OPINION: Most Viewed 72 hours

We are on Telegram


Receive our news directly in your cellphone or PC, join us on our TELEGRAM channel: https://t.me/OrinocoTribune1

Download TELEGRAM, click the link above and then press the JOIN button.

We are Copyleft not Copyright


Creative Commons License
All Orinoco Tribune's work is free to use and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

We are on Reddit


If you are more into REDDIT, join our Orinoco Tribune Community.
Just click below and then click JOIN
https://www.reddit.com/r/OrinocoTribune/

 

  • News
  • Opinion
  • Our Sources
  • About us
  • Categories
  • Support us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Reddit
  • Telegram
  • TikTok
  • LinkedIn
Copyleft - No rights reserved. | ChromeNews by AF themes.

Orinoco Tribune needs your help on our 3 ½ year anniversary

Help us reach some small goals by the end of May

* We are currently at 25% on our annual goal. Help us reach at least 30%

*In Patreon we are below $600. Help us reach $660 (only 14 pledges of $5 each will take us there)

HELP US KEEP MAKING A DIFFERENCE PROVIDING GOOD QUALITY ALTERNATIVE INDEPENDENT NEWS FROM THE SOUTH

             

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.