Caracas_ Venezuelan authorities keep alert to prevent robberies and sabotages on the basic services to the population, which in holidays cause displeasure in the country, Prensa Latina reports.

Over the last months, robberies in the transportation system and specially to the national power grid, the latter a target of economic aggression to the country and involuntary cause of a great number of dead and wounded.

In the second half of December, for example, officials of Security of the Caracas Subway, with the support of the Corps of Scientific, Penal and Criminalistic Research (CICPC acronym in Spanish), arrested five persons of a band that cut cables to affect the transportation system that moves over two million passengers a day.

In order to stop these actions, at present the 48 subway stations of the Caracas Subway have the custody of 1900 police agents (PNB), the National Bolivarian Guard (GNB), the National Intelligence Bolivarian Service (Sebin) and Patrimonial Guard.

More difficult, however, is to prevent sabotage actions in the national power grid that systematically is a target by groups frequently liniked to sectors of the rightwing opposition set on destabilizing the country.

In these holidays, the actions of cut-cables and saboteurs of the power grid facilities hit the state of Zulia, where authorities of the Ministry for Electric Power headed by its head, Luis Motta Dominguez, had to go.

There, an action perpetrated in the Punta de Mata station, caused considerable damages on Christmas. 'It is important the people knows the magnitude of the damage of this vandalic act. We will be relentless in applying the law to those responsible', asserted Prieto in another message published in the social network.

This Tuesday the plant will start working with three new transformers brought from Puerto Cabello, state of Carabobo, each one weighing 80 tons and will arrive in a Navy ship to be installed and boost power service in the Zulia entity.

The official indicated that both the governor and the mayors are coordinating actions also to assume the support of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) the security and protection of the power stations under their jurisdiction.

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