Three days of wide-scale electrical black-outs across Venezuela. At least one pro-Venezuela source is quoting Maduro
claiming these are US malware/cyberattacks bolstered with physical sabotage; looking for more sources.
Keep in mind back
in 2015 there were 13 electrical sabotage attacks in Venezuela; and more recently in
September 2018 a group of 12 people were arrested for sabotage after an explosion at a substation in Maracaibo; in the article the Minister of Energy claims that 12 Venezuelan substations were sabotaged in 2018.
Heavily Armed Soldiers Aborted a Plan to Enter Venezuela by Force is the Bloomberg headline; that was 200 heavily armed soldiers, led by a retired Venezuelan general living in Colombia, General Cliver Alcala, who were going to, "Clear a path" for the aid convoy through the Venezuelan Guards and the border, that is until the Colombian government found out and since they had promised there wouldn't be a mass of bloodshed, quashed this plan.
Hey, remember those burning trucks, and all the condemnation- what kind of monster burns humanitarian aid* rather than feed hungry people?
Turns out that an anti-Maduro protester on the Colombian side threw the molotov cocktail that set the aid trucks on fire.
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But on Saturday night, the New York Times published a detailed video and accompanying article proving that this entire story was a lie. The humanitarian trucks were not set on fire by Maduro’s forces. They were set on fire by anti-Maduro protesters who threw a molotov cocktail that hit one of the trucks. And the NYT’s video traces how the lie spread: from U.S. officials who baselessly announced that Maduro burned them to media outlets that mindlessly repeated the lie.
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*not classified as humanitarian aid by the Red Cross nor the UN.