Venezuela to conduct exercises to protect strategic facilities

Lan Ha March 14, 2019 15:42

(Baonghean.vn) - On March 13, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez announced that the country's Armed Forces will conduct exercises to protect strategic facilities after a series of power outages in the South American country.

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On his official Twitter account, Mr. Lopez wrote: "In order to consolidate the victory of our people against the aggression against the electricity grid, President Nicolas Maduro has instructed the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to conduct the exercise called 'Ana Karina Rote' on March 16-17 to protect the population and strategic facilities."

On March 7, at least 20 of Venezuela's 23 states lost power. Venezuela's state energy company said the widespread outage was caused by a malfunction at the Simon Bolivar hydroelectric plant. Some analysts said the incident was unprecedented in its scope.

On March 13, Venezuelan Minister of Information and Communications Jorge Rodriguez said that power supply had been fully restored nationwide./.

According to TASS
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