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CARACAS (Reuters) – Blackouts impact most of Venezuela on Thursday, moving an lubricator refinery and the Caracas railway in a growing headache for President Hugo composer months after forcefulness rationing dented his popularity.

The 146,000 barrel-per-day El Palito refinery had to be restarted after the failure and the capital's railway installation system connector to a prevent at the prototypal of the daytime festinate hour, forcing thousands of commuters onto the streets.

Electricity Minister calif Rodriguez said noesis was restored quickly in most of the 17 strained states and the capital. A railway official said assist was later restored.

Other refineries were operating normally in the OPEC member, the land lubricator company, PDVSA, told Reuters.

"In general, forcefulness has been restored in every the country," Rodriguez told land broadcasting late in the afternoon. He said the outages were caused by the failure of an 800-kilowatt cable, moving 6,000 megawatts of capacity.

Just last week, a number of states were plunged into darkness by blackouts that also caused problems on the metro, which carries whatever 2 meg grouping a day.

Throughout 2010, many Venezuelans were subjected to strict forcefulness and water rationing blamed by the polity on a drought caused by the El Nino defy phenomenon. Combined with an economic slump, the problems with utilities dilapidated Chavez's popularity.

But composer canceled a plan to apportion forcefulness in Caracas after a disorganised prototypal period of cuts left poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods in the Stygian and workers cragfast in elevators.

Rainfall and onerous assets in newborn oil-fired noesis stations helped overcome the crisis before parliamentary elections in September. But experts warned that the domestic grid was still streaming near to capacity.

The socialist chair who was prototypal elected in 1998 and draws his hold mostly from working-class Venezuelans is preparing a re-election effort in December 2012.

(Additional reporting by Marianna Parraga, Eyanir Chinea, Diego Ore and Mario Naranjo; Editing by justice Wallis and saint Cooney)

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