Once again the light was cut in Caracas and four states of Venezuela

Several neighborhoods of Caracas and at least four states of Venezuela were left on Tuesday without light for the second day in a row and a few days after the biggest power outage in the history of the country.

The cut, much wider than Monday and until the night is still not resolved, has affected several neighborhoods. Caracas and to large areas of the states of Miranda, Vargas -the two neighbors of the capital-, Carabobo and Merida. In the middle of the afternoon, the reason for the new blackout was still unknown, according to the newspaper Caracas The National.

On Monday, the interruption of electricity in other areas was shorter, although in some areas, such as Santa Monica, the cut began the night before and remained in the afternoon. The Guarenas and Guatire localities of Miranda, some 40 kilometers from the capital, were also extinguished for several hours.

The state-owned electricity company, Corpoelec, reported that the Guarenas and Guatire substations had beenaffected by oscillations of power "in the transmission of the state of Northeast Sugar.

From 7 to 13 March, Venezuela experienced the biggest power outage in its history, which President Nicolás Maduro and other Chavez regime officials attributed to a "cyber-sabotage" that Did not provide details.

On the other hand, spokespersons and anti-Chavism experts claimed that the loss was due to lack of infrastructure maintenance and lack of specialized staff at Corpoelec .

They recommended to stop eating fresh foods

The Venezuelan government has recommended that its citizens "think" about consume less fresh food and more processed because they can be "kept longer, even without electricity".

"We have adopted the culture of fresh food consumption: fruits and fresh meat," said Lt. Col. Wilmar Castro Soteldo, Minister of Agricultural Production and Lands, on public television. VTV.

"I think you have to start thinking about canned meat, canned chicken, canned fruit, concentrates, tuberous flours, fruit pulp, dehydrated foodshe advised.

Castro Soteldo said that processed foods "have the same nutritional properties, simply that you can keep them longer, even without electricity" and added that "concentrated foods are not necessarily harmful foods".

Due to power cuts in recent weeks, the acting president appointed by parliament, Juan Guaidó, said that 17 patients have died Hospital, amount that the antichavista deputy Jose Manuel Olivares took to 26.

On Monday, for the first time since the blackout that lasted nearly a week, Chavisme admitted – at a number two conference in this sector, Captain Diosdado Cabello – that there had had fatal victims for this reason, but he claimed that there were only two.