{"id":62649,"date":"2019-03-29T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=62649"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:34:36","slug":"terrorist-attack-behind-venezuela-power-cut-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/terrorist-attack-behind-venezuela-power-cut-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Terrorist attack&#8217; behind Venezuela power cut: Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday said Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant was hit by a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on late Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe recent terrorist attack against the Guri\u2019s transmission yard, caused a fire that was quickly confined by workers, firemen and professionals of the #FANB [National Bolivarian Armed Forces],\u201d Maduro said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never seen a terrorist attack like this, it was carried out with arms, in a vital area for the transmission of electricity,&#8221; he wrote and called on workers of Corpoelec, the country&#8217;s national electricity corporation, to protect all public services.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant was attacked by long-barreled weapons in the Guri region on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela immediately launched repair efforts for the service of electricity, Maduro said.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the U.S. and Juan Guaido, the country\u2019s self-proclaimed president, for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>From March 7 to 13, Venezuela was plunged into darkness with power cuts hitting 22 out of 23 states.<\/p>\n<p>Corpoelec claimed the breakdown was due to &#8220;sabotage&#8221; and Maduro blamed the U.S. for the power shortage.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday said Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant was hit by a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on late Wednesday. \u201cThe recent terrorist attack against the Guri\u2019s transmission yard, caused a fire that was quickly confined by workers, firemen and professionals of the #FANB [National Bolivarian Armed Forces],\u201d Maduro said on Twitter. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never seen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[12897,10852,11497],"class_list":["post-62649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-terrorist-attack","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}