VENEZUELAN pretender Juan Guaido was booed out of a working-class district of Caracas at the weekend as the government reported further sabotage of the electric grid.

Video posted to YouTube on Saturday showed an angry crowd surround Mr Guaido’s convoy of luxury cars in the parish of El Valle in the city’s south-east.

“Go away!” and “get out!” people shout at the car, as police protect it from fist-shaking locals. “This is the people rejecting Guaido,” one says, “the revolutionary people, the real people of El Valle.”

As the cars move off, one woman declares: “See how they run!”

Asked “who’s in that car?” a man replies “Guaido, he tried to come to this neighbourhood but there’s no space for him here.” A woman adds: “He’s not coming in.”

Mr Guaido, an MP of the Popular Will party, declared himself president of Venezuela in January. The illegal move was recognised by the United States, European Union and right-wing regimes in Latin America, but the elected President Nicolas Maduro remains in control of the country, with mass rallies against foreign interference and in defence of the Bolivarian Revolution now commonplace.

Communications, tourism and culture minister Jorge Rodriguez says Venezuela was hit with “synchronised attacks” on the electricity grid on Friday and Saturday. The government says repeated bids to take down the electricity network, causing blackouts and power failures at schools and hospitals, are the work of opposition forces and the US with the aim of destabilising Venezuela.