Just accept that chavismo is in its dying breath already. They're gonna lose badly on Dec. 6, and there's nothing they can do about it except maybe cheat to win. But even then, it'll be very hard for them to do so.

This is the picture that the government says is of the victim:

http://laiguana.tv/images/11_Noviembre2015/27/2.jp g (put the 'g' together with it. Image might be graphic for some)

Now, tell me, does this look like a professional "saboteur?"

Have you ever heard of electric cable theft? Even Venezuela's own Public Ministry has a page dedicated to it: http://www.ministeriopublico.gob.ve/web/guest/boletines-de-prensa;jsessionid=6C740A066AE4A94925FF5B5142EC7CF2?p_p_id=62_INSTANCE_OOc9&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_62_INSTANCE_OOc9_struts_action=%2Fjournal_articles%2Fview&_62_INSTANCE_OOc9_groupId=10136&_62_INSTANCE_OOc9_articleId=3251323&_62_INSTANCE_OOc9_version=1.0

This was most likely an attempt by some poor guy trying to steal some cables to resell. I know it's probably hard for you to grasp this kind of thing since it doesn't happen often enough in your first-world hometown to get any significant media attention, but it happens a lot in underdeveloped nations.

And then add the fact that we are only going by whatever the fuck the government is saying rather than by any other news source, and the fact that the assholes who run the Chavista regime are pathological liars who don't assume responsibility for any of their failures, and then consider that elections are coming up in only a few days (so naturally they'd try their dirty game of trying to make the opposition look like the bad guys,) along with the fact that the government keeps close vigilance of all major power supply plants (and always say that when there's a blackout it's always some kind of sabotage, even after it's happened dozens of times. BULL-FUCKING-SHIT.)

Consider all these things, and you'd see it doesn't take a bloody genius to say that all of this is yet another insulting attempt by the government to try to shift the blame of their incompetence towards their opponents. It's happened before, and it will continue to happen until they're finally removed from power and put in their jail cells.

That would throw doubt upon the idea that it's only poor people trying to swipe free electricity for their homes.

This guy's clothes, shoes, and some of his body were burned right off. That's a bad return for all his trouble.

Who benefits when things go wacko right before elections? The party in office? I don't think so.

It doesn't change the fact that you're wrong :

Blackouts are a very common occurrence throughout Venezuela mainly due to the fact that there has not been much improvement in infrastructure and every day there's more and more people living in shanty towns who add their homes to the power grid without authorization, meaning that they start consuming more than what the power grid was designed to take in. There hasn't been any real advance in the electrical power generation in all of chavismo. The Guri dam was something that's been in place since before Chavez, which was an era that Chavistas love to chastize even though it was during that time when most of Venezuela's infrastructure was put in place.

Just accept the fact that Chavismo is dying. Even the biggest polling agency that has favored Chavismo the most (Hinterlaces) says they don't have more than 30% of support. And it's all because of their own corruption and incompetence, not some "sabotage" by the opposition, especially when the Chavista government controls most means of production and transportation. Just like you were wrong about how Chavez was still alive according to the government bullshit media, you're basically wrong about almost everything else they say, especially today under Maduro whose regime has cracked down on every major TV and radio channel in the country and has bought off the most fervent outlets against the regime. Of course you'd know this if you were actually from Venezuela and actually lived there or knew people who still live there and used news sources from there

and a lot of the problem stems from the government's failure to diversify power sources and maintain the current infrastructure, not "sabotage" by political opponents.

Hydro power is a source of most of Venezuela's electricity (reportedly in excess of 70%). Guri Dam water levels are extremely low due to a persistent drought.

You should learn a little bit more about Venezuela.

http://www.isciences.com/blog/2015/4/20/water-anomaly-forecast-venezuela