Venezuela's Parliament declared due to a power outage emergency

Due to the since the days of the ongoing power outage in Venezuela, the national Assembly has declared a state of emergency. The deputies also approved on Monday a majority of the self-appointed interim President, Juan Guaidó Initiative.

However, Guaidó and the Parliament do not have Power to de facto. The military is so far to the left nationalist President Nicolas Maduro , which has disempowered the Parliament. Many countries see in the Parliament, the only democratically legitimate Institution of the South American crisis of the country.

Since Thursday without electricity

In the decree of the Parliament will depend, among other things, the armed forces, to protect the power grid, and protests against a power failure, not to suppress it. In addition, the authorities should provide fuel for generators to produce electricity. Oil supplies to the Maduro ally Cuba should be discontinued immediately. A compliance with these instructions, nothing was known.

Since Thursday evening, Parts of the derelict country, no more electricity. The restoration of the electricity supply has been slow and suffers a constant series of setbacks. The government of head of state, Maduro makes one of the USA's planned cyber-attack for the loss of power responsible. The Opposition speaks of a lack of maintenance, corruption and mismanagement. (chk/sda)

Created: 12.03.2019, 03:59 PM