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Venezuelan dictatorship blocks social networks
According to the announcement of the non-governmental organization through the Twitter social network, quoted in several foreign media, among them the Washington Post, the main social networks and "multiple other services" are restricted.
NetBlocks was established in 2017 and has been monitoring electricity and Internet connections and services on Venezuelan soil in recent months, denouncing several service outages since January.
The state-owned telecommunications company CANTV has not yet responded to news of the cuts to access services such as Twitter, Facebook or Youtube, but also from Android or Bing.
According to the same source, at 8:10 am local time (1:10 pm in Lisbon), no attempt had been made to shut down Internet access completely, noting that "VPN services continue to be effective in accessing the platforms ".
The self-proclaimed President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, announced today that the military have "finally and once and for all" to accompany and achieve "the definitive end of the usurpation" of the Government of President Nicolás Maduro.
"On May 1, the definitive end of usurpation began today," Guaidó said in a video posted on his account on the social network Twitter, in which he is accompanied by a group of soldiers at the base of La Carlota, east of Caracas.
The Venezuelan government, Nicolás Maduro, has denounced that he is facing a coup d'état, of "a small group of traitorous military men" who are being neutralized. Lusa