Major power outage hits Venezuela’s capital, with Maduro government blaming ‘sabotage’

Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states.

President Nicolas Maduro’s government blamed the outage, which it said began about 4:50 a.m., on “electrical sabotage.”

Freddy Nanez, the communications minister, said officials were working to restore power. “Nobody will take away our peace and tranquility of the Venezuelan people,” he wrote in a message shared with journalists on Telegram.