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10. More than half the country without gas a few days before Christmas

Zulia, Barinas and Táchira without gas a few days before Christmas
By Rosalie Méndez Rea - December 20, 2017 12:28 a.m

The phrase "no gasoline" has been repeated in recent days at service stations in the states of Zulia, Barinas, and Táchira. In these entities, the long lines adorn the main roads waiting for tanker trucks that supply fuel.

Less than a week before Christmas, citizens make long queues of up to 10 kilometers, with the desire to get gasoline and be able to move to their places of work, housing or study, although most of the fate is elusive.

The situation for many is outrageous and represents a humiliation that there is no gas in an oil country like Venezuela, and especially in the state of Zulia where more than half of the oil produced in the country is extracted.

Failures in public services also hit Venezuelans in an atypical December without food, without medicines, without water, without electricity in many areas, without domestic gas and without cash.

May God have mercy, it is popular clamor. Although, some, in the middle of the crisis take advantage of the situation. Residents of Táchira and Zulia denounce that the pimpinas of 20 liters are sold between 150,000 and 250 thousand bolivars.

Users of social networks report that they spend more than 12 hours in queues, to try to load fuel.

The deputy to the National Assembly, Gaby Arellano, assures that this December there are neither hallacas, nor tree, nor festivities in the family of Táchira because the only thing that there is is a tragedy, because in the 29 municipalities they spend hours, days and nights in the queues not only for the purchase of food but for refueling.

In other states like Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Trujillo and Mérida also report fuel shortages, although Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) confirmed on Tuesday that it has faults in the supply and dispatch of gasoline in the states of Barinas, Táchira and Zulia. He attributed the flaws to the international blockade against Venezuela.

https://www.el-carabobeno.com/zulia-barinas-tachira-sin-gasolina-dias-navidad/

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