© Leonardo Fernandez Viloria, ReutersPeople line up at a public transport stop in Caracas, Venezuela, during a power outage affecting the capital and other regions of the country on August 30, 2024. Electric power began to return in Venezuela on Friday afternoon after a widespread outage in the capital Caracas and other parts of the country that the government of President Nicolas Maduro blamed on "sabotage" by the opposition without citing evidence. The country's communications minister said in a voice message on Telegram that all 24 of Venezuela's states had been at least partially impacted, adding that the outage was a "desperate" attempt by Maduro's opponents to violently oust him as president.
Power began to return to some parts of
Venezuela on Friday afternoon after capital Caracas and much of the rest of the country were earlier plunged into a blackout that the government blamed on sabotage by the opposition, without providing evidence.
President
Nicolas Maduro, who is locked in a dispute with the opposition over the outcome of a July 28 presidential election, often blames what
he says are "attacks" on the power grid on his political rivals, accusations the opposition has always denied.
All 24 of the country's states reported a total or partial loss of electricity supply, Freddy Nanez, the minister of
communication and information, said on state television early on Friday morning.
"We have been victims once again of electrical sabotage," he said. He gave no evidence of a deliberate attack.
Comment: It seems notable that Lavrov should make this comment, now, because this has been apparent for a while.
Furthermore, whilst Russia does call out Israel's diabolical actions for what they are, and it has been openly and diligently been working with the axis of resistance, it often seems as though there's some diplomatic restraint with regards to its commentary on, and its relationship with, Israel.
Some analysts think that this may be because of the hundreds of thousands of Russian-Jews who, in the event of a serious conflict, may wish to return.
Either way, it remains to be seen whether this marks the beginning a stronger Russian diplomatic stance towards the US-Israel's maleficent schemes for the Middle East: