"Unless something urgently required, we recommend you to stay in your homes," Jorge Rodriguez said in a Twitter post.
"Starve in the dark, proles!"
Starting from 4.45 p.m. local time (2045 GMT), a new power cut left much of Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...without electricity.
"Since the aggressions in March and April this year, the Bolivarian Government has implemented protection and security protocols that allow us to guarantee that we are in the process of reconnecting to restore the electric power service in the shortest possible time," the Venezuelan Presidency said in a statement.
"It's more than 14 hours of national blackout. In 7 states of the country, the service was partially restored and 9 are still without power," Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó
...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis....said on Twitter.
"It is not an option for Venezuelans to get used to this tragedy," Guaido added.
While the government advised people to stay home, there is a mass street rally set for today by the opposition to move forward the "next stage" of their struggle to gain power.
After a weeklong power cut, which began on March 7, in Venezuela, the country went through another blackout on March 25.
Although the government announced that the cuts were due to cyber and physical sabotage, the opposition claimed that the electricity system collapsed due to the government’s lack of adequate efforts.