Caracas: The Government of Venezuela is implementing today a new protection mechanism for the National Electric System (SEN), focused on addressing emergencies and advancing its restructuring and consolidation, Prensa Latina reports.
The Sectorial Vice President of Public Works and Services, Néstor Reverol, notified the eve that the Executive built a comprehensive security plan with the purpose of working on the improvement of basic services.
Reverol explained that under instructions from the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, the methodology defines as work lines the attention of the energetic emergency after the sabotages perpetrated in March against the processes of generation and transmission, with affectations to great part of the national territory and the distribution of drinking water.
The Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace also highlighted the formation of six work commissions with actions aimed at renovating the National Electric Corporation, with the premise of shielding the sector against future aggression.
For his part, the Venezuelan head of state said that the Bolivarian authorities are working to guarantee the gradual recovery of the SEN in the face of the unconventional war perpetrated by the right.
From the Miraflores Palace (seat of the Executive), Maduro affirmed that the attacks are part of an electric power coup in development and against public services to render and confuse an entire country. 'We are in resistance and we are going to win,' he said.
He also recalled that the South American nation has activated 51 thousand Integral Defense Productive Units, as well as more than two million militiamen for the protection of vulnerable areas and the support to political and territorial leaders in the distribution of food and supplies in front of attacks
'I make a repeated appeal to all Venezuelans, to the revolutionary and patriotic people, to defend peace in every corner, parish, municipality, avenue, community and neighborhood. We are not going to take away our sovereignty, we are going to protect the SEN from these bestial attacks of imperialism”, the president stressed on national radio and television.
Government plans began their implementation since the Simón Bolívar hydroelectric plant, located in the Guri dam, Bolívar state, was out of service on March 7 due to a series of cybernetic, electromagnetic and physical attacks that left 80 percent of the country without electricity for six days.
Also, on Monday, March 25, criminal hands caused a fire in the transformers' yard of the main generating plant in Venezuela by using snipers from an elevation near the facility, according to preliminary investigations.
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