Another power failure in Venezuela: there is almost half of a country without light

Nail A new blackout hit Monday several areas in the east and west of Caracas, as well as 18 states of the country.: Sugar, Bolívar, Guárico, Carabobo, Aragua, Monagas, Cojedes, Táchira, Zulia, Anzoátegui, Portuguese, La Guaira, New Esparta, Miranda, Lara, Barinas, Mérida and Falcón.

Until this year, it's the fifth power outage that hit Caracas. The first was recorded on March 7 and was extended until 12 o'clock, then there was another foul at the end of March. Another blackout occurred on June 18 and the fourth was produced between July 14 and July 15.

Since March, other states have experienced recurrent failures: Zulia, Táchira and Falcón.

According to reports, telephone operators such as Digitel, Movistar and Cantav have been experiencing failures in their services. And the Internet monitoring organization, Netblocks, reported that Internet connectivity dropped to six percent.

Despite the difficulties, and although an official version has not yet been published, the users of the electrical service have used social networks to report the reductions.