What is the latest news from Venezuela regarding power outages in Caracas?
Hugo Chávez suspends Caracas power blackouts Venezuelan president sacks electricity minister after traffic lights and wrong sectors of capital left without power Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Thursday 14 January 2010 16.11 GMT The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, indefinitely suspended rolling blackouts in the capital one day after they began and sacked his electricity minister, saying he was responsible for mistakes in the way the rationing plan was applied. Chavez’s announcements late yesterday were a significant strategic shift in his attempts to prevent a widespread power collapse in the coming months through rolling blackouts of up to four hours a day across the country. “I’ve ordered the electrical outages to be suspended, only in Caracas,” Chávez said on state television. “Because this government has to be capable of recognising mistakes made and fixing them in time.” Chavez said that since the outages began in Caracas, authorities had cut power to the wrong sectors of the
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the suspension of programmed power outages in the capital city on Wednesday, and asked for the resignation of his minister for electricity, citing errors in the management of the country’s plan to conserve energy amidst a nation-wide electricity shortage. “Only in Caracas, I have ordered the suspension of electricity outages, because this government has to be capable of recognizing and rectifying errors committed,” Chavez announced late on Wednesday night, only one day after the scheduled power outages had begun in the heavily populated, sprawling capital. According to the plan, electricity was to be cut for four hours every other day in different neighborhoods across the city, but a series of “technical errors” were committed, including repeated outages and the cutting of power to stoplights and hospitals in some communities, according to the president. Sources: http://www.venez
