"This isn't 'The Matrix'. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones," The Atlantic magazine's editor in chief said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker.
"We are reporting that at approximately 4:40am (08:40 GMT) today, Friday, August 30, an electrical sabotage took place in Venezuela which has affected almost the entire national territory," Communications Minister Freddy Nanez told the state-run VTV channel.