Cabudare and Lara
What is happening in Cabudare, Barquisimeto and the municipalities of Lara state.
According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz counted 26 outages Monday against 19 on Sunday, with 72 h 7 min without service in Iribarren and 43 h 7 min in Palavecino; the average cut lasted 4 h 51 min and nine areas went more than six straight hours dark.
According to El Impulso, residents say leaking drinking water blocks the way for schoolchildren and that officials have gone four months without answering them.
According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz counted 103 outages in Iribarren, 75% of the total, and 32 in Palavecino, plus 33 voltage fluctuations; hours without power fell by 75 from the previous week, and the average cut lasted 5 hours 6 minutes.
According to La Prensa de Lara, resident Amador Durán says they pay $10 per water truck and that a broken pipe on carrera 29 between calles 31 and 32 has been leaking for about 15 days; Hidroven, formerly Hidrolara, responded without fixing it.
According to La Prensa de Lara, residents heard an explosion around 11:30 a.m. Sunday the 18th; Protección Civil and firefighters brought the flames under control with foam by noon. An overload is the unconfirmed cause circulating, and there was no official statement.
According to El Informador, association president Julio Gutiérrez says the surface mix must be poured at a 90-degree angle to compact properly, and that intermittent water service seeps into the asphalt and causes alligator cracking.
According to La Prensa de Lara, the asphalt past the La Paca coffee mill has broken down into dirt and gravel, the shoulder has collapsed and traffic is down to one narrow lane; coffee and vegetables from the highlands travel that route to Portuguesa.
According to El Informador, Vente's political secretary in Lara wants the true cost of the service calculated, an auditable fuel supply tied to routes and frequencies, and the state to cover discounted fares; he proposes a census of vehicles within 90 days.
According to La Prensa de Lara, Geovanny Peroza of the Sindicato Automotor says some drivers spend 24 to 48 hours at a station, and Briamt Reyes of the Sindicato Bolivariano de Transporte blames part of the delay on power cuts during pumping hours.
According to La Prensa de Lara, the former Torres mayor and the former deputy met in Caracas with Dinorah Figuera, Ramón López and Macario González of the 2015 National Assembly; they asked for an election date and verifiable releases.
According to La Prensa de Lara, unions and residents joined the march, which set out from avenida Vargas and avenida 20; Sobella Mejías, PUD coordinator in Lara, cited outages and low wages, and Enrique Ferreira urged speeding up the choice of a new CNE.
According to La Prensa de Lara, the union of Lara state government employees delivered a proposal on October 19 to peg wages to the dollar by education level, end discretionary payments and move payrolls off the Plataforma Patria.
According to La Prensa de Lara, the team, honored in the free papers category at the October 8 to 10 congress in Margarita, studied 22 seropositive patients from Cubiro, in Jiménez municipality, to identify those at risk of sudden death.
According to La Prensa de Lara, María Angélica Giménez, president of UCLA's engineering student council, hopes for gradual improvements, and Ariel Pérez of UCV says the raise does not keep up with the cost of living.
According to La Prensa de Lara, at UCLA only the health sciences school serves about 400 trays Monday through Thursday to scholarship students, Unexpo serves meals twice a month, and the UPEL and Uptaeb halls are shut; UPEL's has been closed more than six years.
According to El Nacional, the fair took place October 18 at the Las Trinitarias mall and the Inmaculada Concepción parish in El Tocuyo; the top prize was a car, with cash prizes of up to $3,000. Funds go to social work, evangelization and church upkeep.
According to La Prensa de Lara, the association led by Juan Romero has worked since October 15, 1985, has more than 60 members and more than 70 performances; it also teaches cuatro and golpes larenses at its Andrés «Pipo» Aguilar school.
According to La Prensa de Lara, Ruy Medina says Hospital Central should have three to four and has none for transfers; Alberto Domínguez of Stivss says IVSS units sit idle for lack of batteries or tires. A private transfer costs $40 to $60.