{"id":2367,"date":"2019-04-13T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/terrorist-attack-behind-venezuela-power-cut-maduro\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T19:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:32:18","slug":"terrorist-attack-behind-venezuela-power-cut-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/terrorist-attack-behind-venezuela-power-cut-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Terrorist attack\u2019 behind Venezuela power cut: Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<h2>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday said Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant was hit by a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on late Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe recent terrorist attack against the Guri\u2019s transmission yard, caused a fire that was quickly confined by workers, firemen and professionals of the #FANB [National Bolivarian Armed Forces],\u201d Maduro said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen a terrorist attack like this, it was carried out with arms, in a vital area for the transmission of electricity,\u201d he wrote and called on workers of Corpoelec, the country\u2019s national electricity corporation, to protect all public services.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant was attacked by long-barreled weapons in the Guri region on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela immediately launched repair efforts for the service of electricity, Maduro said.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the U.S. and Juan Guaido, the country\u2019s self-proclaimed president, for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>From March 7 to 13, Venezuela was plunged into darkness with power cuts hitting 22 out of 23 states.<\/p>\n<p>Corpoelec claimed the breakdown was due to \u201csabotage\u201d and Maduro blamed the U.S. for the power shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/terrorist-attack-behind-venezuela-power-cut-maduro\/?utm_source=source&#038;utm_medium=medyaolusum&#038;utm_campaign=english&#038;utm_content=news rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NationalTurk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday said Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant was hit by a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on late Wednesday. \u201cThe recent terrorist attack against the Guri\u2019s transmission yard, caused a fire that was quickly confined by workers, firemen and professionals of the #FANB [National Bolivarian Armed Forces],\u201d Maduro said on Twitter. \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}