Two weeks before a massive power failure turned the lights out across Venezuela, Geovany Zambrano Rodríguez had done the unthinkable. The state electricity worker had joined colleagues in publicly accusing the Maduro government of “destroying” the national grid, and declaring themselves willing to rebuild it under “President Juan Guaidó”.
Speaking to an online television channel, the four Corpoelec workers said that incompetence, corruption and neglect had left Venezuela’s electrical infrastructure “on the floor”. Pointing to already frequent outages, they warned of total collapse.
“At any moment, we could fall into a blackout across the whole country and it’s going to be very difficult to recover…
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