Venezuelans return to work after blackout, but the difficulties continue


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The Venezuelans returned to their jobs on Thursday with difficulties to take public transport and withdraw money in banks, after the government ordered to resume work activities after the blackout that collapsed the country.

"Already today we began to work normally" in several cities although many shops around, however, remained closed.

Sales has been bad for all merchants. It is normal after a crisis of this magnitude, because people will not buy shoes when what they are looking for is water and food.

Withdrawing cash is quite a journey, the chronic shortage worsened with the power cut on March 7, which just started to be solved on Monday.

The queues in front of the banks were repeated in different parts of the capital and its periphery, where 6 of the 30 million inhabitants of the oil country live.

The Caracas subway, which mobilizes some two million passengers daily, restored its service, although it maintained a closed stretch on its main line. It enabled buses to transport its users from the stations where the route is interrupted.

The regime of Nicolás Maduro has celebrated as "a victory" the recovery of the light, because it denounced that the blackout was due to "cybernetic attacks" and "electromagnetic" of the United States. (A total barbarity and mockery because the reality is different, the lack of maintenance of everything to Venezuela is already present in the most basic services, in fact many experts blame the socialist government for the lack of investment and maintenance of infrastructure, and corruption in the electricity sector.

Commerce opens stores but operates with limitations


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Almost 60% of the merchants in the center of the Tahrir capital once again opened the stores of their businesses, after the electric blackout that has affected the whole country and therefore the Tachira state, and despite the restart of activities, they continue to suffer setbacks for the lack of cash, which prevents consumers from acquiring the products they want, coupled with repeated failure at the points of sale.

During this Wednesday, in the avenues García de Hevia and Isaías Medina Angarita known as Fifth and Seventh Avenue, where a good percentage of the trade of San Cristóbal is concentrated, the business owners resumed their work, after the forced closure of their premises, after the power cuts that occurred during the weekend and the beginning of it.

We are all suffering from this contingency because the Internet does not work properly and the payment points are not used. Consumers choose not to make the purchase, since they claim they do not have cash, because in the banks they are not working and they are not working. giving sovereign citizens, is a crisis that has overwhelmed our ability to collect and therefore, the losses we are suffering are enormous.

Businesses in the footwear, clothing and some bijouterie industries were the ones that mostly opened the stores, but not those dedicated to the manufacture of processed foods, since this sector, according to spokesmen, has been severely affected by the power outages they have caused losses and prevent their commercialization, until the electric emergency is completely overcome.

Internet failures prevent transactions and payments

In some businesses, their owners have chosen to make sales through the Biopago system of Banco de Venezuela, a platform that sometimes does not operate due to failures in the Internet system.

In the absence of cash and malfunction of the points of sale some have given the option to the customer to cancel through the Biopago system.

However, this method is very limited, because very few people own it and when they have it, technology platforms do not work, which has practically no sales.

In general, the severe electricity crisis, coupled with the lack of cash, seems to engulf the little commercial sector that remains operational in the Tachiren capital, so it is not ruled out, that it ends up stopping its activities to continue the current contingency .

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Problems , problems and more problems... 😪

I hope that life can return to normality as soon as possible. I wish you all the best.

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