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Venezuela faces food and water issues amid political crisis

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Published : Mar 12, 2019, 4:09 PM IST

Venezuela is facing serious problems because of the nationwide power cuts. The power cuts have left people without basic need of food and water water as the people have to either throw or donate food because the groceries would rot in their fridges without power or they couldn't cook it in their electric stoves at home.

Venezuela faces food and water issues amid political crisis

Venezuela faces food and water issues

Caracas: The nationwide power cuts have raised tensions among the Venezuelans who were already struggling with an economic crisis and a bitter political standoff.

Venezuela faces food and water issues

Schools and businesses were closed, cars waited in long lines at the few gasoline stations with electricity and hospitals cared for many patients without power.

Apart from these, the power cuts have left people without basic need of food and water as the people have to either throw or donate food because the groceries would rot in their fridges without power or they couldn't cook it in their electric stoves at home.

Also Read:Floods in Brazil kill at least 11 people

To ease the travails a bit a restaurant named Hache Gourmet took the initiative to prepare food for those in need. The restaurant owners took to social media to announce that the restaurant would be making the traditional stuffed corn-patty arepas and would donate them to charitable foundations and hospitals.

"We prefer a thousand times to donate food that is in good condition than to wait until Wednesday to see what was going to happen with these blackouts," said Natali Alvarez, one of the owners of Hache Gourmet.

The water problem couldn't be solved as the water pumps were not working without electricity and people were seen filling water bottles from a polluted river in Caracas.

Also Read:Explosion at a power station adds to Venezuela's hardship

Engineers restored power in some parts of Venezuela but it was still fluctuating which President Nicholas Maduro and other government officials said they were working hard to restore.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido blamed the blackouts on alleged government corruption and mismanagement.

Venezuela is facing a major political crisis after Opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself as interim President saying that Maduro wasn't legitimately re-elected last year because opposition candidates weren't permitted to contest. The US and more than 50 governments have recognised Guaido as the interim President of Venezuela and are constantly pressurising Maduro to quit.

Caracas: The nationwide power cuts have raised tensions among the Venezuelans who were already struggling with an economic crisis and a bitter political standoff.

Venezuela faces food and water issues

Schools and businesses were closed, cars waited in long lines at the few gasoline stations with electricity and hospitals cared for many patients without power.

Apart from these, the power cuts have left people without basic need of food and water as the people have to either throw or donate food because the groceries would rot in their fridges without power or they couldn't cook it in their electric stoves at home.

Also Read:Floods in Brazil kill at least 11 people

To ease the travails a bit a restaurant named Hache Gourmet took the initiative to prepare food for those in need. The restaurant owners took to social media to announce that the restaurant would be making the traditional stuffed corn-patty arepas and would donate them to charitable foundations and hospitals.

"We prefer a thousand times to donate food that is in good condition than to wait until Wednesday to see what was going to happen with these blackouts," said Natali Alvarez, one of the owners of Hache Gourmet.

The water problem couldn't be solved as the water pumps were not working without electricity and people were seen filling water bottles from a polluted river in Caracas.

Also Read:Explosion at a power station adds to Venezuela's hardship

Engineers restored power in some parts of Venezuela but it was still fluctuating which President Nicholas Maduro and other government officials said they were working hard to restore.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido blamed the blackouts on alleged government corruption and mismanagement.

Venezuela is facing a major political crisis after Opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself as interim President saying that Maduro wasn't legitimately re-elected last year because opposition candidates weren't permitted to contest. The US and more than 50 governments have recognised Guaido as the interim President of Venezuela and are constantly pressurising Maduro to quit.

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Caracas - 11 March 2019
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1. Tilt down of Venezuelan President Maduro giving a speech
2. Pull out of a portrait of Simon Bolivar, liberator of Venezuela
3. Close-up of Maduro holding a print out of a tweet from a user quoting a Forbes Magazine article, headline reading (English) "Could Venezuela's power outage really be a cyber attack?"
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan President:
"First, the cyber attack to the brain of the company Corpoelec, to the brain in the generation in Guayana, in Guri, in Macagua, the brain of the computerised system that processes, leads, conducts and self-regulates all the generation services and all of the transmission and distribution services of the country."
5. Various of Maduro holding a print out of a tweet from a user quoting a Forbes Magazine article
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan President:
"They totally knocked down Guri (dam) which is where the electricity is generated the hydroelectrical way. When it was around 7pm, we started the recovery. They gave us an electromagnetic coup and gave us a definite punch to the brain, two strokes of punches combined. Then, when we began the recovery at two o'clock in the morning on March 8 another electromagnetic punch to the brain, it was already blind."
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7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan President:
"All of the options, which are on the table, are against Venezuela and one of these options includes the "electric war," the "electric shock" and the "cyber attack." If it is one of those options and a high-tech cyber attack has been made against Venezuela, the United States of America is the only government with a technology (capable of carrying out a high-tech cyber attack)."
8. Split screen showing Maduro speaking (left) and footage allegedly showing the electrical sub station explosion (right)
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan President:
"We captured two individuals trying to sabotage Guri's communications system to reverse the recovery process. They were captured during the act and are currently detained. They are talking. I ask the Venezuelan justice system to not only go after the direct perpetrators, but also the desperate intellectual authors who caused this gigantic damage as well."
10. Image allegedly showing explosion at electrical substation
11. Maduro holding a printed picture of electrical substation explosion
STORYLINE:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused opposition leader Juan Guaido and the U.S. of staging a "cyberattack" on the country's power grid, following an explosion at a power station in the capital Caracas.
The claims by Maduro come as millions of people across the nation remain without electricity, water and communications for several days.
Maduro used an address on national television to also claim that two people were captured by authorities for allegedly trying to sabotage power facilities at the power facility in the Baruta area.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido said three of four electricity transformers servicing the area were knocked out and that state engineers were unable to fix them.
Guaido has blamed the blackouts on alleged government corruption and mismanagement.
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