Although supply started to recover slowly on Wednesday, the issue is on everyone’s lips. With civility and respect, the lack of light and water provokes many debates on the street. In the central square of Bolivar, for example, a young woman gets angry: "We don't have water or light. I have no money and my five children are starving to death. At about two meters comes a woman's answer: "I lost my husband and had to educate my four children. I worked to be able to pay for the house and I also took care of my children. But today's young people ... “How lucky are you?” he breathed deeply. The government provides you with a home and for each child you receive a grant of 18,000 bolivars (equivalent to Venezuela's minimum wage)." After a second of silence, the water and the light crisis were again the subject of conversation and, yes, they both reached an agreement: "They say that there has been a cessation by the opposition and that it is probably true," he added.

Not far from there, we find Ana's kiosk, in which only newspapers are sold that respond to the line of opposition and in which, like all Venezuelans, Ana gives his opinion on the crisis: "Things are wrong. We have no water and we are forced to drink the dirty water of the Guaire River. We have never experienced such a harsh situation here. In his view, the crisis is the government's fault, and the government's version of the shortage of electricity is "a great falsehood." Desperate, he has acknowledged that the political crisis "has no solution" and has accused the self-proclaimed president, Guaidó, of "not teaching him anything".

No cuts in political agendas

On this occasion, the opposition has taken over the mobilisation agenda. After the failure of the strategy of 23 January, the strategy of 23 February has come to an end and after a month and a half without mobilisation, a new strategy has begun. Eleventh attempt. The opposition, which has made a new appeal to "take the streets", has responded with mobilizations in Caracas, mostly small, isolated and peaceful, with the exception of that made on Avenida de San Martín. There was a tension there after the protesters attacked municipal police officers with stones.

The most massive and remarkable mobilization has taken place on the other side of the city, in eastern Caracas, which is favorable to the opposition. The opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, has given a meeting to dozens of journalists and hundreds of sympathizers in front of the headquarters.

"The purpose of the attack is to justify humanitarian intervention"

Sectors close to Chavism, for example, have also maintained their political agenda. For example, the young people of the PSUV government party have carried out a political initiative in the vicinity of the Miraflores presidential palace that has brought dozens of people together. They hold the "American imperialism" responsible for the situation in which the country finds itself.

Asked about Argia, political analyst Basem Tajeldine has also positively valued the official version and has considered that the interruption of electricity is due to US cyber attacks. "This has been demonstrated by many international experts, and the government has also demonstrated it," Obama said. "This is not the first time that the Americans have carried out such an attack and it is clear that Venezuela is not going to be an exception," Tajeldin said.

According to the analyst, "the attack has been caused by the lack of electricity and as a consequence the water crisis has come," whose objective would be "to demoralize the country" to "justify a humanitarian intervention". "However, they have not succeeded. The people have given a strong response to the aggression," he told ARGIA.