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00:00We now go live with our correspondent in Caracas, Gladys Quezada. Welcome Gladys. What are the latest updates from Venezuela?

00:11Hi Luis, thanks for this time and the opportunity to contact with you and with our audience

00:17through Telus or English and the screens. Currently

00:20I'm at Pedare, one of the most populous neighborhoods in all the town and also in Caracas,

00:27Venezuela, and this is one of the main zones in the western part of the city that was affected by the

00:33electric cut. The power grid attack suffered yesterday in

00:38early morning hours. As you know and our audience, yesterday the government had a

00:44full task force for

00:48repairing and also recovering the

00:51electric power grid here in Venezuela, but also I want to tell you that today

00:57August 31st the recovery of the coverage is

01:01100%. I mean all the power grid is up, is working, is effective and

01:07everyone here in Caracas is enjoying the service once again and

01:11the water bombing and the water pumping also is back because this is one of the main services that get affected

01:17when the electricity is out and the power is out here in Caracas and in all Venezuela.

01:24Currently I'm at a farmer's market

01:27which means that people are just here buying their goods for the week. They are buying

01:32you know, the vegetables, the fruits, they are buying also

01:36whatever they need to be in storage in their houses in order to be prepared, to be ready for

01:43the week. But I want to tell you and I want to stress, the city is totally recovered in terms of

01:50transportation because as we were reporting yesterday one of the main affectations here and the impacts of this electric cut is that

01:57the lines, the subway lines are out of power and also they are out of service.

02:03So they are not operative which means that people had to mobilize using the landlines or using maybe the roads

02:11which means

02:12crowded roads in every instance because out of the seven million inhabitants in Caracas the

02:19metro line or I mean the subway line is

02:23one service for three million people here in the city. So it is a lot. But as I was saying yesterday the government

02:31ensured the transportation means using

02:34250 buses, special buses that were summing up or adding up to the current means of

02:41transportation from the private sector. Right now as you can see there are

02:45some people in the in the streets, many people that are using the subway lines and they are coming here to these

02:51former markets here in Petare which are more economic and they have better prices than other parts of the city.

02:59So people come in here to do their shops, to do their groceries and as you can see behind me

03:05there is a long line of people just buying and

03:08choosing and picking up their fruits, their vegetables as I was saying and there is music in the city.

03:14There is other services. People are just going to the beauty salons. They are going to buy some repair car parts and

03:22also, those are the ones that are going to the beaches, to the parks and

03:27enjoying the Saturday because let's recall aside from the attack yesterday on the national power grid and the electric system,

03:35aside from the sabotages, aside from maybe this kind of liabilities and difficulties,

03:41Venezuela is still moving on and people are just working when they have to and

03:45enjoying their leisure time and their weekend and their free time as long as they can, no matter what happened here in the country.

03:52So today

03:54the city is moving on with normalcy. As you can see behind me, people are just buying what they need.

04:00They are coming in here and we are showing just one market because we have to stay in a place,

04:04we have to be still, but in other markets, you know, the fish market, the

04:10shoe stores, they have also many, many customers doing lines, many people who are

04:17taking advantage of the offers of Saturday and they are just living their lives as long as they can and as long as

04:24they have the opportunity to do so despite, as I was saying, this kind of liabilities and this kind of attacks. This morning

04:32there was this news that they had the 100%

04:35coverage of the electric system once again back in the city.

04:39But I want to tell you that the president yesterday was saying that Venezuela is ready, is

04:45prepared for this kind of attacks and in all times they have contingency plans,

04:50they are ready, they plan in advance to face this kind of issues, this kind of attacks and liabilities. And

04:58as yesterday he was saying, in the nighttime and today in the morning, other authorities,

05:03they were stressing that

05:06there are also other actions by the National Police like the one that had placed in Tashira before the elections on July 28th and

05:14they deactivated one criminal band that intended to do the same thing that happened yesterday, an attack, a sabotage

05:21against the electric system. Also, I want to tell you that the first vice president of the country, Delcy Rodríguez,

05:27she mobilized to Bolívar State and

05:30mobilized with the Minister of Electricity here in Venezuela. Together they assessed the recovery tasks and

05:37together they gave some addresses this morning. They were saying that

05:41the hydroelectric plant of Guri is reestablished and they were saying that the service is

05:48100% again back in the city. And

05:51some commercials, some market owners,

05:54they were saying that yesterday was a difficult day because they don't have or they lacked yesterday

06:00the means of doing the digital financial transactions, but that today they are full in tax.

06:07They are working at 100% capacity and that yesterday they, the first thing they did was selling the

06:15freeze or the frozen goods because they were fearing, you know, that they came to be robbed.

06:25Cash transactions.

06:26This is the reality of Venezuela, a resilient country that is facing every impact, every attack with creativity, with

06:34joyful spirit. And as you can see behind me,

06:37they are just prepared for this kind of attacks that they have been suffering since

06:422019 when they were one week, a whole week, without electricity because one of these sabotages.

06:49So, Luis, this is the information we will be reporting from different points of the city.

06:53So, we can show you the situation today on Saturday noon because this is noon time already here in Caracas, in

07:01Caracas hours, and we will be reporting for you and for our audience. So, Luis, now we are back to you.

07:08We are giving you the signal.

07:10Thank you, Claudia. We're gonna stay tuned with you to continue following up on the situation in Caracas.

07:14So, we'll be in touch in upcoming news briefs.

07:20Yeah, we will. We will, Luis.

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