Venezuela, transportation experience a halt due to the attack on the National Electric Service

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*Health care facilities in Caracas are operation regularly and providing services *Authorities are working to recover the service supply throughout the country *People remain calm in the capital despite the attack on the national power grid

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00:00Welcome to Telus for English, my name is Belen de los Santos and these are the headlines

00:07at this hour and we start by going to Caracas to have the updates on the situation over

00:12there with our correspondent Gladys Quezada.

00:15Let's listen.

00:16Yes, thanks for the time and the contact here with you and the opportunity to inform our

00:22audience what is going on in Venezuela.

00:25As we have been reporting at 4.50 a.m. today, Friday, August the 30th, there was a sabotage

00:33against the national power grid, the national energy system, so the city of Caracas, the

00:39capital of the country, as well as other main cities in the country are under this power

00:44cut, so they are operating with strategies and with alternatives, that's to say.

00:49First of all, the transportation, it experienced a halt because the many people here in the

00:55city are using or used to move in the city using the subway lines, but those are inoperative

01:03right now because of the power cut, so they are using the means of transportation, land

01:07transportation and the government issued a system of 250 buses, so the people can move

01:13freely out of cost here in the city from one point to the other.

01:17Also I have to say that many commerces and many markets have been affected, but they

01:23are operating under only cash, only cash transactions, so people can buy their goods and buy their

01:30commodities and try to find what they need under these conditions.

01:36Also I have to say that according to several ministers and the government, the healthcare

01:43facilities are operating regularly and normally because they are using power plants and using

01:48oil provided by the government, so 79 hospitals and healthcare facilities here in Caracas

01:54are operating regularly and they are giving and providing services, that's to say the

01:59healthcare units, the neonatal, the pregnant women units and of course the emergency ones

02:05because they have been working non-stop to provide this for the people.

02:10Also as many of you can imagine, the services of internet are cut, are down here in the

02:17city because of the power cut, but the people can use the landlines and use other means

02:23of telecommunications, the power is being restored gradually, some areas of the city

02:28have been experiencing power come in and out because it's unstable yet, but the authorities

02:35are assuring they are doing everything under their power, they are doing every task to

02:40recover the power grid and to recover the service as soon as possible.

02:46So far those are the main informations, as you can see behind me, the line of the subway

02:51is closed, but even though the transportation is regular and there are some agents of the

02:58national power and armed forces who are accompanying the process and who are using their means

03:07to help mobility and to do whatever they can because the street lights are off because

03:13of the power grid.

03:14This is the main information here in Caracas, this is the main information here in Venezuela,

03:19but I have to say that people are calm, people are experiencing this with tranquility because

03:24this new sabotage is just an echo and falls in line with other that happened on Tuesday

03:30night against the power grid here in Caracas and affected many zones in the north of the

03:37city and also let's recall that back in 2019 Caracas had many days under other blackouts

03:45or other power cuts in the city and people just found out strategies, they even walked

03:51by when oil was out and the power was out to operate the subway lines.

03:57So this is the normal day today despite the circumstances, despite the difficulties and

04:02despite this new attack against the power grid.

04:06The Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino Lopez, as well as the first Vice President

04:10of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, both of them have been saying

04:15that they will find the responsibles and make them accountable for the attack so they will

04:20face justice and they will also face the liabilities because of what they have done

04:27against the power grid and against the people because this is an attack against the regular

04:33life and the normal life of the people.

04:36So this is the main information, as you can see the mobility is on, there is no stoppage,

04:41there is no halt in the mobility here in Caracas, the people are just continuing with their

04:45lives, doing what they can normally and regularly despite the circumstances, despite this malicious

04:52attack against the power grid.

04:54So this is the information we will be reporting from here, Caracas, Venezuela.

04:59So now we are giving the signal back to you.

05:04And those are the headlines at this hour.

05:06For these and more stories, go to our website at censorenglish.net.

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