President Venezuelan Nicholas Maduro announced on Tuesday night, during a meeting held at the Presidential Command Post and broadcast on national television, the suspension of school classes on Wednesday and Thursday due to the imminent passage of a tropical cyclone through the north of the country.
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The executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, had anticipated earlier that “from two in the morning on Wednesday“would be recorded”A lot of rain” in the north of the country due to the weather phenomenon.
During the day, in addition, the Venezuelan Ministry of Education announced that school classes would be suspended in the states of Sucre, Anzoátegui, Nueva Esparta, Miranda, Aragua, Carabobo, Falcón, Zulia and in the capital, Caracas.
However, during the meeting, in which his ministers also participated, Maduro announced that he had made the decision to extend the measure to “the entire national territory” on June 29 and 30.
“Maximum precaution and maximum preparation in civic, military and police union (…) Listening to you, rather I have made a new decision, we are going to suspend classes throughout the national territory. In the 23 states plus Caracas”, Maduro announced following hearing the report by Colonel José Pereira, president of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of Venezuela.
The Chavista leader blamed “to capitalism” by “the destruction of nature” that has caused phenomena of this magnitude. In addition, he assured that it is a situation that had “prophesied” the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Maduro recalled that the cyclone has also caused the restriction of flights, closure of roads and beaches, prohibition of departures and protection of the places of departure in the country. In addition, he ordered the activation of places of refuge to serve the population that is at risk.
