Russia backs Venezuelan government conspiracy theory

Russia, invited by the Venezuelan government to be part of a presidential commission to investigate the recent blackout, has expressed full support for Maduro’s government version that Venezuela was the target of cyber and magnetic attacks against its power grid.

María Zajárova, spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Relations Ministry declared: “According to the country’s legitimate government, headed by president Maduro, and also based on information from other trustworthy sources, Venezuela’s electric-energy sector has suffer an attack from outside the country.”

Zajárova, like Maduro, has no doubts as to who is behind the attacks, as she accused the United States government of supplying weapons to the opposition through hired smugglers and drug traffickers.