Since Thursday, Venezuela has literally been in the dark, without power for more than 4 days.
The electricity crisis is not something new to the country, where all levels of infrastructure have been destroyed with years of corruption, mismanagement and non-investment. Blackouts have become a customary thing in recent years in all of Venezuela. Early warnings of the electricity crisis go back as far as 2014.
However, this is the first time the country has been in the dark for so long. Below the map of Latin America while Venezuela went dark.
No food, no healthcare, no communication, no work, no money, no nothing. And with it, a great worry about what is going to happen next.
As I write this, some parts of Caracas have gotten power back but you can see from the chart, that it has not been easy for power to be restored / maintained. Will have to wait and see how the situation normalizes.
The government has its hands pretty full already with the economic sanctions on the oil sector, raising cash from selling gold, fighting off the humanitarian help trying to enter the country and pushing their international agenda. So this situation could not have come at a worse time for them.
Maduro remains in a strong stance with the military high command supporting him but I cannot imagine that all of these factors are not taking an internal toll.
It seems that more pain will come to Venezuela under the current state, either through a continuation of the electricity crisis in the form of blackouts or through another crisis already in place (food, health, water, gas, etc). Some of which may be accelerated from the impact of the economic sanctions.
It’s always darkest before dawn… and I do hope we are closer to dawn
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