Do Venezuelans really believe it’s all sabotage?

Not according the results of a poll by the Instituto Venezolano de Análisis de Datos (IVAD) conducted in July this year (before the September 3 blackout).  IVAD asked for open responses to the question: who is most responsible for the current electricity crisis in the country?

Responses were grouped as follows:

The national government: 43.4%

Lack of investments: 0.4%

Saboteurs: 3.2%
Energy Minister: 4.3 %

The People: 6.4%

The weather: 0.1%

Lack of maintenance: 5.6%

Previous governments: 2.3%

Corpoelec/Electric Industry: 18.9%

Workers: 0.6%

The Governor: 1.8%

Bad administration: 0.5%

The Mayor: 1.0%

Others: 0%

No answer: 11.5%

Adding all the categories that could be loosely understood as that “the government” (national government, lack of maintenance, Energy Minister, Corpoelec, and bad administration), 72.7% of the respondents believe the government is responsible for the crisis. Only 3.2% mentioned saboteurs.

(There are also some strange categories I don’t quite understand: The People? (el pueblo) What People?)