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Maduro declares overcome the electric "attack" and announces the creation of a commission to investigate itBy: Actualidad.RT / Aporrea.org | Tuesday, 03/12/2019 08:22 PM
translated from Spanish
"They are behind this attack, because they believed that from this way they would achieve their political objectives," Maduro said Tuesday from the Presidential Command Post.
According to the president, the cyberattack was directed from two American cities: Houston and Chicago.
"We are facing some barbarians: the barbarian Donald Trump, the White House and their internal puppets who believe that politics has no limit," he said.
The president said that despite the threats, peace will prevail in Venezuela and that "no one will give a coup d'etat".
New relations with the United States
After the rupture of diplomatic relations between the US Venezuela and the 72-hour period that gave the US diplomatic staff to leave the country, Maduro announced his desire to have a respectful relationship with the White House in the future and left the doors open to a negotiation process between the two countries .
"I want the US to have an office of interests to attend to all its affairs in Caracas and I want Venezuela to have an office of interests in Washington," the president said after assuring that he believes in peace and diplomacy.
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https://www.aporrea.org/energia/n339350.html
Shell_Seas
(3,318 posts)Shell_Seas
(3,318 posts)sabotage and cyberattacks organized by the United States and the opposition, without providing any evidence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/world/americas/venzuela-blackout-maduro.html
This is pretty serious, right?
Did we do it?
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)The preeminent Venezuelan electrical authority in Venezuela says cyber attack is impossible.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Such a cyberattack is eminently possible, and the ability and freedom to wage such attacks is self-declared US policy.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Than Sr. Cabas?
I am a home builder (timber frame) and cabinet maker and I work with exotic hardwoods every day, but I defer to lumberjacks when it comes to the harvesting of wood and foresters when it comes to planting trees.
Miguel M
(234 posts)Thanks for the heads-up.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)And I will let you know if I have questions about... what?
Shell_Seas
(3,318 posts)years.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/russian-hackers-attacking-u-s-power-grid-aviation-fbi-warns
Who is to be believed?
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Sr. Cabas says its impossible. He says the blackout is the result of years of neglect and indolence
I tend to believe a technocrat over Maduro, who has offered nothing in the way of proof.
I tend to believe damn near everyone over Maduro, who has made a career out of making paper thin lies.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Ex-Minister of Electric Energy Héctor Navarro does not believe in sabotage theory about the blackout: "El Guri is analog"
By: Aporrea-Agencias | Wednesday, 03/13/2019 02:20 PM
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"I do not think that the whole system is modernized so that a hacker can violate or sabotage the system, it is very difficult for me. The Guri system is analog, I can not tell you if it was modernized digitally, an analog system can not be sabotaged by a hacker," said Navarro.
Navarro said that the probable cause of the sabotage is the lack of maintenance by the Venezuelan government, producing a forest fire.
Similarly, demanded that those responsible for the act comply with sanctions because "we are suffering a calamity." "There have been dead and someone has to pay for the broken dishes and has to be sanctioned and the only way is to know the truth," he said.
Another cause that Navarro exposed of the electricity crisis in the country was the "corruption" of officials of the Maduro regime.
"This is distressing because there have been chains of irresponsibility and irregularities (...) most of them with the government of Nicolás Maduro," he said.
https://www.aporrea.org/contraloria/n339374.html