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Approaching day 4 without electricity in Caracas
More than 50 hours without electricity in Venezuela: the consequences intensifyClosed shops, food that is rotting, lack of transportation, health centers without power plants are part of the citizens' parorama this Saturday
translated from Spanish
For the NATIONAL
MARCH 9, 2019 10:50 PM | UPDATED ON MARCH 9, 2019 10:59 PM
This Saturday the history of the electric faults had two faces: one of the Caraqueños who had recovered the service during the dawn and the citizens that reside in the interior of the country that continue without service since Thursday at 4:56 pm.
After 55 hours, the fears of Venezuelans about what would happen to their food became a nightmare because it is no longer possible to refrigerate them, they are rotting.
"I got a meat and some vegetables that I had in the fridge. We had to eat the ham and the cheese that we had because it was going to be damaged too, "said Emma Castro for El Nacional .
Castro lives in Guarenas, a city where the heat affects its inhabitants on a daily basis and according to their criteria accelerated the decomposition of their food.
The shops closed to the impossibility of collecting their products became part of the landscape from this Thursday. Locals that have an electric plant and can keep their doors open concentrate people who go out to the streets looking to buy supplies.
Fixed and mobile telephone connections as well as the Internet are affected. Venezuelans who are abroad express their desperation through social networks trying to get someone to respond to their messages.
"How to be calm when your family in Venezuela is rotting the little food they have in the fridge with more than 40 hours without electricity," says Luisa María in her Twitter account.
The inhabitants of Caracas have had to resort to public spaces to achieve a signal. The Altamira distributor, the Digitel tower, the Movistar tower and the Sphere of Soto are some of the points where there is a stable mobile signal and where there are numerous cars parked looking for a telephone connection.
Health centers continue to be affected by the impossibility of functioning due to the lack of power plants. The director of Codevida, Francisco Valencia, reported that 15 people died in the country due to lack of dialysis. Zulia 9, Trujillo 2 and Pérez Carreño 4.
The patients who should receive treatment report that before the blackout they only received one hour of treatment at the Urológico Valencia.
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MARCH 9, 2019 10:50 PM | UPDATED ON MARCH 9, 2019 10:59 PM
This Saturday the history of the electric faults had two faces: one of the Caraqueños who had recovered the service during the dawn and the citizens that reside in the interior of the country that continue without service since Thursday at 4:56 pm.
After 55 hours, the fears of Venezuelans about what would happen to their food became a nightmare because it is no longer possible to refrigerate them, they are rotting.
"I got a meat and some vegetables that I had in the fridge. We had to eat the ham and the cheese that we had because it was going to be damaged too, "said Emma Castro for El Nacional .
Castro lives in Guarenas, a city where the heat affects its inhabitants on a daily basis and according to their criteria accelerated the decomposition of their food.
The shops closed to the impossibility of collecting their products became part of the landscape from this Thursday. Locals that have an electric plant and can keep their doors open concentrate people who go out to the streets looking to buy supplies.
Fixed and mobile telephone connections as well as the Internet are affected. Venezuelans who are abroad express their desperation through social networks trying to get someone to respond to their messages.
"How to be calm when your family in Venezuela is rotting the little food they have in the fridge with more than 40 hours without electricity," says Luisa María in her Twitter account.
The inhabitants of Caracas have had to resort to public spaces to achieve a signal. The Altamira distributor, the Digitel tower, the Movistar tower and the Sphere of Soto are some of the points where there is a stable mobile signal and where there are numerous cars parked looking for a telephone connection.
Health centers continue to be affected by the impossibility of functioning due to the lack of power plants. The director of Codevida, Francisco Valencia, reported that 15 people died in the country due to lack of dialysis. Zulia 9, Trujillo 2 and Pérez Carreño 4.
The patients who should receive treatment report that before the blackout they only received one hour of treatment at the Urológico Valencia.
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http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sociedad/mas-horas-sin-luz-venezuela-intensifican-las-consecuencias_274038
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