In the early hours of January 29th, a malfunctioning electrical transformer caused a fire that damaged large amounts of fiber optic cables, leaving many parts of Barquisimeto without internet. In some places a complete interruption of the service was reported, while. Venezuela 's state-owned telecommunications company, Cantv, has officially decommissioned its 31-year-old Américas I submarine cable, one of the oldest in the region. As the local fire department did not show up, it was put out by Civil Protection officials with a borrowed. How a covert fiber optic ISP became a convergence point for Iranian manufacturing, Russian technical expertise, and SEBIN intelligence operations By ODINT Investigation Team — February, 2026 In March 2022, unmarked white vans began appearing along the Caracas-La Guaira highway, one of Venezuela's. Venezuelan and Iranian authorities announced this weekend the signing of an agreement to build a fiber optic factory in the South American country, more specifically in La Guaira, a State just 30 kilometers north of Caracas and home to the country's gateway Simón Bolívar Airport. Signing the. Venezuela-based workers connected to the global technology ecosystem are facing an increasingly impossible situation: three to four power blackouts or internet failures are happening on an average week and the very fact of delivering services from Venezuela is now viewed with grave suspicion.
