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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 1, 2024, p. 20

Caracas. Intermittent power supply has returned to Caracas and major cities in Venezuela after a blackout that left much of the country in darkness on Friday. The electricity came on almost at 2 in the morning (yesterday) and we had to fight because it would go out and come back on.”, explained Reyner Acosta, a 62-year-old retiree, while waiting in Maracaibo, capital of Zulia, to replenish the food that needed refrigeration and had spoiled.

Electricity was restored to several states after a 12-hour blackout at 4:00 p.m. local time the day before yesterday, and was restored to almost the entire country in the early hours of yesterday, according to local media. The José Antonio Anzoátegui oil terminal, the largest in the country, resumed its loading and unloading operations of ships; meanwhile, Petropiar, a key oil upgrader that produces exportable crude, resumed its work at noon yesterday, company personnel explained.

700 sent to maximum security prisons

Meanwhile, more than 700 detainees during Venezuela’s post-election crisis were sent to two maximum security prisons over the past week, amid irregularitiesthe Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP) indicated yesterday. The shipment was under false pretenses, since their families were not notified. Many of them found out when they went to take food to the police stations.the OVP detailed.

On another topic, President Nicolás Maduro showed his absolute support to her Honduran counterpart, Xiomara Castro, who is the victim of a cruel and excessive attack by the United States after Honduras cancelled an extradition treaty with the North American country.

He highlighted the courage de Castro to consolidate the sovereignty of his country, and expressed: We are obliged by history to close ranks in the battle for the dignity of our country..