09-03-19.- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reported on Saturday March 9 that the national electrical system was subject to "electromagnetic" attacks.

Maduro said that on March 7, when the first electrical failure occurred, the reconnection maneuvers began when at 6 or 7 pm "we suddenly received an international cyber attack against the brain of our electric company and the start came down."

"The first thing we reconnected was the east of the country: Bolívar, Anzoátegui, Monagas and then we came to part of Caracas After that, when we were reconnecting, a new attack came and we discovered that they were carrying out high-tech scientific attacks, our experts call it electromagnetic attacks against the transmission lines to interrupt the process. "

"Today, already in the morning hours, we had reconnected 70% of the country, when we received at midday another attack of a cybernetic nature and that disturbed the system.The people must be aware of those who sabotage the electric service".

He also said that they are investigating and punishing the guilty. "There are many infiltrators attacking the electric industry from the inside, as happened in the 2002 and 2003 unemployment, but those moles will be discovered and punished," he added.

He noted that, in the attack on the electrical system, they have used high-level technology that only the United States has in the world. "That's going to be known ... The truth is decreed in our destiny!" he said.

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The Venezuelan health sector was one of the main victims during the general blackout of more than 20 hours. Suspended treatments, closed healthcare centers and lack of refrigeration of special medicines are some of the incidents registered during Thursday and Friday. At least 12 hospital rooms remain without light.

Julio Castro, infectious disease physician; Francisco Valencia, director of Codevida, and José Manuel Olivares, deputy to the National Assembly for the state of Vargas, offered statements on Friday about the situation in the country's hospitals.

Olivares explained that the La Victoria hospital, the El Valle maternity hospital, the General del Sur Hospital in Maracaibo and the Miguel Oraa hospital in Portuguesa do not have any source of energy to supply.

On the other hand, he indicated that the Maternidad del Sur in Carabobo, the hospital of Los Magallanes de Catia, the University Hospital of Caracas and the City Hospital Dr. Enrique Tejera of Carabobo only provide electricity to emergencies and intensive care units.

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Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced late Thursday that President Nicolas Maduro ordered schools and offices be shut on Friday in order to speed up the repairs of the Venezuelan electric system, which was attacked by far-right groups Thursday afternoon.

"President Nicolas Maduro has suspended work and school activities on Friday so as to facilitate the necessary repair works on the country's electrical service, which was victim of an imperial war. United Venezuelans will win! The coup plotters will not pass," Rodriguez wrote on her Twitter account.

In a press conference, the Vice President denounced that Venezuela's blackout was caused by far-right groups encouraged by U.S. politicians. Among these, she referred to Marco Rubio, a Republican Senator from Florida hostile to the Venezuelan government, who posted a tweet just 3 minutes after the blackout began.

"We want to send a message to the international community: just three minutes after the attack, Marco Rubio, once again, as a crime reporter, reported on the event that was happening in our country," Rodriguez said and added "Mr. Rubio, I want to inform you that, in a few hours, the Venezuelan people and the international community will know the truth. We'll know that your rotten hands - supported by your lackeys who permanently attack the Venezuelan people - are involved in this"

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Inhabitants of the Anzoátegui, Monagas and Nueva Esparta states denied the assertions of Jorge Rodríguez, who assured that the electric service had been restored in its entirety in the east of the country.

Rodriguez described the blackout as a "technical and cybernetic" attack on the power generation system in Venezuela. "In a heroic way it was possible to restore the electricity service to 100% in the whole east of the country, and in a few hours it could be restored throughout the national territory, which was the attack that the system tried to affect for several days," he added. official representative.

Some of the places where there is no electricity service are Vargas, Lara, Carabobo, Cojedes, Monagas, Apure, Delta Amacuro, Yacacuy, Zulia, Falcon, Sucre, Guárico, Bolívar, Portuguesa, Barinas, Aragua, Táchira, Mérida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Anzoátegui, besides Caracas.

Luis Motta Domínguez indicated that the electrical failure was due to an "electrical war" that seeks to destabilize the country. "We have been the object of the electric war again, we were attacked by the generation and transmission part of El Guri, we estimate that the electric service will be restored in about three hours," the minister said in an interview by telephone for VTV.

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Translation: The light "returned" to all the East of the country, according to Jorge Rodríguez # 7Mar

CARACAS – On this day in 2015, U.S. President Barack Obama issued an order declaring Venezuela a threat to U.S security and extended sanctions against seven top Venezuelan officials.

“We will never forget this and on every March 9 we will celebrate the day of Bolivarian Anti-Imperialism in Venezuela, I hereby declare that March 9 will be the anti-imperialist day.”

Maduro claimed that Obama’s executive order has “caused a wave of global outrage against his unwise, erratic decision.”

Washington’s move included freezing assets that seven Venezuelan officials may hold in U.S. jurisdictions, and accusing them of human rights violations during anti-government protests in Venezuela in 2014.

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The president of the Society of Resident Physicians (Somir) of Vargas Hospital, Carlos Prosperi, said that Venezuela does not need the presence of these doctors, what he needs, according to him, "is that health professionals provide them with medical supplies."

He also denounced that "these doctors will be given a salary that ranges between $1,500/$1,800 a month when Venezuelan doctors charge five dollars."

"The doctors who are currently arriving have not shown degrees and do not speak our language," indicating that six of these doctors are already working at Vargas. "We do not know with what intention they arrive," he said.

He said that "others arrived at the hospital in Macuto but there are 15 who came to the country (...) The other doctors do not know where they are."

On the other hand, Mauro Zambrano. representative of the Union of Hospitals and Clinics, stressed that it is not necessary to bring doctors from outside, "here there is in spite of the diaspora (...) Deep down they want to show that health workers do nothing".

07-03-19.-This Thursday, in the program Vladimir at 1, broadcast by Globovisión, the trade unionists of the public sector, Pablo Zambrano, leader for the health sector, and José Patines, who represents the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coincide in the need to go to a strike "so that the working class will have the benefits of before".

José Patines, assured that "nobody from the Government has wanted to attend us after having lost the collective contract". The trade unionist says he does not understand "how after having taken everything away from us, they want us to sit down and discuss the collective contract."

While Pablo Zambrano adds that this is a reaction to the fact that the workers are looking for a change, because the economic and social clauses were eliminated, and the so-called "hunger tables" were applied to them. "So now, the prisoner of the country's crisis falls on the working class," he added.

Patines continued saying that "unfortunately what we see here, is that Nicolás (Maduro), they are dictating to him." We were on Tuesday with (Juan) Guaidó at the College of Engineers, arguing, not to call a strike, because the Foreign Ministry is working with the nails, because there is no water, there is no paper, there is no toner ".

Likewise, José Patines denounced that they do not have any support, "we have passed letters to the Ministry of Labor, we have gone to the Vice Presidency, nobody has wanted to attend us since we were stripped of the collective contract."

"We can not sit down with people who took away what we had for years, in November we protested in front of the Vice Presidency, and that's why they fired more than 150 workers in January because of the intimidation they have for the workers." said Patines.
For his part, Zambrano insisted that "the government has been lacking in respect for the working class and workers." Remember that a few years ago the now president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was "rescued from a cell,

Skates reported that from the union are preparing to give important announcements this Friday, March 8.

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07-03-19.- Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA denied today that its subsidiary PDV Marina has declared a maritime emergency, after the German shipping company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) announced plans to remove its crews from 10 tankers that operates under PDVSA contract due to non-payment.

"PDV Marina is a subsidiary of PDVSA that continues to work with the company BSM ... PDV Marina offers maritime and fluvial transportation of hydrocarbons, as well as the provision of tugboat service, reaching satisfactory daily days," said PDVSA.

The denial comes after Reuters and the newspaper El Universal revealed, based on an internal memo from PDVSA, that PDV Marina declared a "maritime emergency" after the shipping company BSM announced plans to abandon 10 PDVSA tankers, due to the lack of payment of the state.

According to the memorandum, "if you do not have the necessary personnel, operations will be affected to meet international commitments and there is a risk of the forced occupation of some vessels"

The document shows the need for personnel to keep the units involved operational, stating that each vessel requires a crew of 16 people, and that the number of vessels affected is ten, for which a total of 160 people are required.

On February 23, the crew of the Venezuelan oil tanker El Río Arauca, which has been detained in the middle of the Tagus River in Lisbon for almost two years due to unpaid debt, was forced to abandon the ship, the managers told Reuters. of BSM.

According to BSM, PDVSA owes you $ 15 million.

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