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On March 8th and into March 9th, the blackouts in most of Venezuela continued.

On Twitter, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed his support to the works of the national electrical service working tirelessly to restore power.

Maduro, together with Vice President Delcy Rodriguez also announced a suspension of classes and working hours on March 8th until the electrical service is restored in a statement on TV.

“President Nicolas Maduro has suspended the classes and working hours for today, in order to facilitate the work and efforts for the recovery of electrical service in the country, victim of imperial electric warfare! United Venezuelans win! The coup leaders will not pass”

Also on March 8th, during the blackout in an area west of Caracas people received humanitarian aid boxes from the Venezuelan government.

Sputnik Mundo reported that the Venezuelan opposition has known for days that the blackout would occur and showed videos that US Senator Marco Rubio as well as they knew that the “terrorist act” was going to take place.

“This video shows that the Venezuelan opposition and political operators as they @marcorubio knew that this terrorist act was going to occur. For some days, they were modeling public opinion for the ‘ Operation Blackout ‘ planned by the #CIA”

Meanwhile, Western media reported that deaths are starting to happen in hospital due to the lack of power and that chaos is ensuing.

In contrast, Venezuelan media reported that contingency plan for the country’s hospitals and offered immediate attention to children and patients in vulnerable situations.

“Deaths in hospitals denied #Venezuela during blackout http://bit.ly/2EMHB4h The Venezuelan government activated a contingency plan in the country’s hospitals and offered immediate attention to children in vulnerable situations”

The head of nurses in one of the largest hospitals in Caracas confirmed that there had been no deaths due to the blackout.

Madeleine Garcia also alleged that Marco Rubio knew the blackout was going to happen, describing in several tweets how the Senator tweeted of the generator failure and other facts before they were made publicly available.

At 5 PM on March 7th the electrical power failed and Venezuelan Energy Minister announced the failure was in Guri at 5:55 PM as per the screenshot.

However, the exact place and scope of the attack was confirmed on March 8th, despite that allegedly Rubio knew exactly where it had happened.

Thus, Marco Rubio knew because the ones responsible for the alleged attack targeted the automatic control system, “the brain that activates the 20 machines #GURI and the generators were not activated how did you know @marcorubio?”

Marco Rubio tweeted that “just a week ago” the electric workers union warned that the Venezuelan hydroelectric dam would not be able to handle a blackout.

He also alleged that there were deaths as a result of the blackout, which has since been denied.

In response to the blackout, the Venezuelan military increased its patrols, as announced by Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez.

On March 8th, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that Venezuelan Industry Minister Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah was charged with evading the February 2017 sanctions by hiring U.S. companies to provide private jet services, including for a February 23rd return trip to Venezuela from Russia. El Aissami was also a former Vice President.

Venezuelan businessman Samark Jose Lopez Bello, an El Aissami associate also sanctioned by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, was also criminally charged, as were several other defendants.

Marco Rubio posted the court decision to charge them on Twitter and alleged that they are part of the “Maduro Crime Family.”

US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliot Abrams announced that the sanctions against Venezuela are all going according to plan. He also said that the blackouts throughout the country show that the Venezuelan infrastructure is suffering from Maduro’s misrule.

Asked about a letter sent by 16 House Democrats expressing concern about US sanctions and violent threats, Abrams said the sanctions were meant to be temporary.

“The purpose is to motivate people to change their behavior,” he said. “It’s not just a punishment, we hope it’s also an inducement to change pattern of behavior.”

To accusations that US-Proclaimed Venezuelan President Juan Guaido was a “US Puppet,” Abrams said that that is impossible since the support he receives from the US, Canada and Europe disproves any such claim.

US National Security Adviser John Bolton continued with his usual rhetoric toward the Maduro government.

He also shared an article by Reuters, citing unnamed Inter-American Development Bank officials, according to whom in the week between March 11th and 17th the forty-eight member countries would vote on accepting a representative from Venezuela’s opposition to its board.

Bolton naturally urged US allies in all institutions and governments to support Guaido.

Finally, Juan Guaido reminded people to take to the streets on March 9th to take part in the protest he came to Venezuela for.

“Venezuela to the street!

Tomorrow I summon all the Venezuelan people to express ourselves massively in the streets against the usurping, corrupt and incapable regime that has put our country in the dark. The cessation of usurpation will be the cessation of darkness.

Come on Venezuela!”

He also propagated the claims that 79 people died due to the blackouts, which has since been denied. He accused the Maduro government of lying that it was a cyber attack and accused it of killing opposition supporters.

He also alleged that the blackout was also a result of a sabotage, but not by external forces, but rather by the “usurper.”

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