At least fifteen patients died in only one hospital in the Monegas state (northeast of Venezuela) due to the electricity blackout that began last Thursday in the South American country, and the budget is certainly destined to increase. Julio Castro, a local specialist doctor, denounced it on Twitter. At 11.30 on Saturday, Castro wrote, in the Manuel Nunez Tovar Hospital in Maturin, the state capital - "without light and without an electric generator" - 9 patients admitted to the emergency service died, 2 in obstetrics, one in traumatology and one in the neonatal intensive care unit. Just shortly after the doctor reported the situation on Twitter, Venezuela was hit by a second blackout, in the Italian evening, which again affected the electricity system and left 96% of the country disconnected from the Internet.
Juan Guaido, the Speaker of the Venezuelan Parliament who assumed executive powers, obviously returned to office accusing the now ousted President Nicolas Maduro, and spoke to the crowd on a megaphone, standing in a car, after the police dismantle the grandstand that had been erected for his rally on Avenida Victoria, in western Caracas. Guaidò called his sympathizers to unity and mobilize in the streets "to denounce whoever is truly responsible for the crisis of electricity, petrol, water, hospitals and who has a name and surname: Nicolas Maduro!".
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Thousand of sympathizers of Chavismo instead they marched in the center of Caracas, in the Bolivarian Anti-imperialist March convened by the government of Nicolas Maduro, for the anniversary of the imposition, by the then US president Barack Obama, of the first sanctions against senior Venezuelan leaders. “Today, when the US empire, desperate to get its hands on our natural resources, intensifies its brutal aggression against the homeland, we stop resolutely to defend our land and loudly shout: Yankee Go Home!” Maduro wrote on Twitter in support of the mobilization. The Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, participated in the march from the headquarters of the national telecommunications body, Conatel, to the Miraflores Palace, seat of the presidency, and told reporters that "what we see is a people that resists, and for this we know will overcome all difficulties.”
