More power outages have hit Venezuela as the government struggles to restore electricity following the country's worst blackouts earlier this month.
on Wednesday as the government struggled to restore electricity following the nation's worst blackouts earlier this month. In Caracas, some residents left their homes to search for water after their taps dried up because of failing pumps.
President Nicolas Maduro's government said schools and state offices and industries were closed Wednesday because of the outages. Few shops in Caracas, the capital, were open and many streets were clear of the usual weekday traffic. "These blackouts will continue to happen," said Anais Marquina, a bakery owner. "If you don't manage to get a generator, all merchandise is going to be lost."
On Wednesday, some people in Caracas headed out with empty containers to try to find water in the scattered neighborhoods that had electricity, or at springs in the hills alongside the city.
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