This is how the power outage occurred on August 30 in Barcelona, Lechería (Anzoátegui), Valencia (Carabobo), Barquisimeto (Lara), San Cristóbal and San Antonio (Táchira), San Felipe (Yaracuy) and Maracaibo, San Francisco and Cabimas (Zulia)
At around 5:00 a.m. on Friday, August 30, a new failure was recorded in the National Electric System (SEN) that affected 18 states in the country; among them: Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Carabobo, Falcón, Lara, Miranda, Táchira, Yaracuy and Zulia; plus the Capital District. After 2:30 p.m., service began to be restored in some regions. As of 4:00 p.m., authorities had not offered information on what caused the service interruption.
The list of affected states is completed by: La Guaira, Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Delta Amacuro, Monagas, Sucre and Merida.
This is how the blackout occurred on August 30 in Barcelona, Lechería (Anzoátegui), Valencia (Carabobo), Barquisimeto (Lara), San Cristóbal and San Antonio (Táchira), San Felipe (Yaracuy) and Maracaibo, San Francisco and Cabimas (Zulia).
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Anzoategui
In Anzoátegui, the lack of electricity did not stop commercial activity in the state. Some merchants in the northern area of the eastern state decided to open their businesses and work with the power plant to “have some sales.”
Although the presence of citizens was scarce on the streets, those who did go out to make their purchases resolved with mobile payment, cash, biopayment or wireless points; he reported The Weather.
After 11:45 am this Friday, power service began to be gradually restored in the metropolitan area of Anzoátegui.
Residents and merchants in Barcelona, the state capital, were the first to report the restoration of electricity in some areas of Nueva Barcelona, Las Casitas, Casco Central, Avenida Pedro María Freites and Barrio Sucre.
The spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Anzoátegui state, Wael Raad, reported that in some areas of 5 de Julio Boulevard and Barrio Sucre they had the service and in others they did not.
In communities in the southern part of the capital of the state of Anzoátegui, such as Mesones and La Ponderosa, they indicated that they had electricity, but with fluctuations in voltage.
Meanwhile, residents of Lechería, after 2:00 pm, had been without power for more than eight hours, but around 3:00 pm electricity began to arrive, although only in the 110v phase. Previously, Mayor Manuel Ferreira reported that the local police were deployed at the traffic lights to guarantee the safety and mobility of the residents.
Carabobo
In Valencia, capital of Carabobo state, some businesses raised their shutters, the streets were not crowded and at the gas stations, with power plants, lines of vehicles looking to fill up with fuel began to form around noon.
The lack of electricity affected telephone service in some areas; it also affected the operation of payment systems in shops, so in many only cash payments are being accepted; he reported. The Carabobo native.
On the other hand, the Dr. Enrique Tejera Hospital City (CHET) reported that it would only attend to emergencies.
The power plant at the institution, known as the Central Hospital of Valencia, was prioritized for emergency cases that arise.
At the Dr. Ángel Larralde University Hospital (HUAL), however, care was limited: this center does not have a power plant.
Lara
At the Antonio María Pineda Central Hospital in Barquisimeto, Lara state, they also worked with a power plant. Carlos Angulo, a neurosurgeon at the health center, informed El Impulso that he operated in the Emergency, Intensive Care and Pavilion areas at the center.
“We are only attending consultations and post-operative care due to the lack of air conditioning and light in the laboratories,” Angulo explained. “The plant is working for the basic areas, but some areas do not have the service.”
The power failure in the state affected sectors such as commerce, industry and transportation.
The capital of the western state also reported long queues of vehicles, since the early hours of this Friday, August 30, at gas stations.
Users consulted by The Impulse Outside the service stations, they commented that the waiting time to fill up vehicles ranges from one to two hours, in the case of motorcycles, and two hours for cars.
A tour conducted by the team of The Impulse The survey showed a panorama of streets with little traffic in some areas, such as the east and Vargas Avenue. However, in the downtown area it was observed that commercial activity continued despite the lack of electricity. Public transport operated normally during the first hours of the day.
Tachira
“The first state that is functioning after the electrical sabotage is Táchira. Long live Táchira! The country is in darkness right now and it is not President Maduro’s fault. We regret what happened, but we have the capacity to restore power to the citizens,” wrote the governor of the Andean state, headed by Freddy Bernal.
At around 11:00 am, power was restored in several areas of Mérida, Táchira and Trujillo.
In the municipalities of Bolívar and Pedro María Ureña de Táchira, the electricity service was interrupted at 4:55 am, as in the rest of the state. “It came on for five minutes and then went off again,” he told The Nation a merchant from San Antonio del Táchira at 10:15 am, a town where only 10% of businesses were working on August 30.
At the passport stamping booths in San Antonio, there were queues at the stamping point. Dozens of people were waiting at the main customs office in the city of Villa Heroica, in the municipality of Bolívar. After 10:30 am, in some areas of the border, service began to be restored.
Yaracuy
Several establishments in San Felipe and Independencia, Yaracuy state, opened to the public, however, many of the managers and owners of the businesses were waiting for the service to be restored, since they do not have power generators that would facilitate certain transactions; reported Yaracuy Today.
The movement of people in the streets of the capital of Yaracuy continued throughout the morning, although some citizens found it difficult to pay: “You have to have cash to buy when this type of situation happens, because making mobile payment is impossible due to the failure with the telephone lines, logically neither the biopayment nor other points work,” said Marinés Da Silva, a buyer, to Yaracuy Today.
Traffic in the central area of San Felipe was controlled by security forces from the early hours of the morning on August 30.
Meanwhile, during the morning, an electric generator was put into operation to supply power to the San Felipe Dialysis Unit in Yaracuy, a medical facility where hundreds of kidney patients from different municipalities and even from other states are treated daily.
State health officials said that all hemodialysis units in the state, such as the one located in Chivacoa, Bruzual municipality, and the one at the central hospital in San Felipe, were also continuing to operate.
Zulia
At noon, power was restored in several areas of Zulia, but after a few minutes it was cut off again, reported The truth.
In Maracaibo, residents of the Los Olivos urbanization, the Francisco de Miranda sector, Amparo and part of La Limpia indicated that their electricity was restored, but after a few minutes they stopped receiving service again.
The same situation was recorded in sectors of San Francisco such as El Manzanillo, Sierra Maestra, the San Francisco urbanization and El Samán.
“In Manzanillo, the power came on, went out, and came back on intermittently. The protectors don’t turn on,” Edward Sánchez, a resident of the area, told the local newspaper around 12:00 p.m.
At that time, electricity arrived in the vicinity of the Noriega Trigo Hospital, but with changes in voltage.
Meanwhile, in Cabimas, residents of the La Intercomunal sector, Germán Ríos parish, were still without service after midday.
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