After 12 continuous hours without electricity, residents of the second-most important city in the country rioted by setting roadblocks on fire and looting shops.
In other news, the Public Sector Will Work Only Two Days a Week in Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro says new measure will last for ‘a couple of weeks’ to save power.
Cellphone carriers are suspending international calls.
Venezuela blackouts: ‘We can’t go on living like this’, especially when doctors are using their cellphones to light emergency surgery:
#Communism: Blackouts in #Venezuela. #Doctors operating a patient using their cell #phones as the source of light. pic.twitter.com/u5Wlzod1Ir
— RalphGM (@RalphGMWorks) April 11, 2016
Caracas Chronicles looks at what it’s like to be Shutting Down the Country.
A headline that sums it up, Venezuela Doesn’t Have Enough Money to Pay for Its Money.
In short, socialism for the 21st century.
After 12 continuous hours without electricity, residents of the second-most important city in the country rioted by setting roadblocks on fire and looting shops.
The average daily high in Maracaibo is above 90 degrees every month of the year. Like the disco song said, Hot, hot hot hot hot. And more hot. At least in Texas, there are some cooler months- there are none in Maracaibo. Under normal circumstances, very few Marachcuchos live without air conditioning.
Chavismo has favored Caracas when electricity has been rationed, due to its central location. An angry mob descending from the hills of Caracas to Miraflores would be a public relations nightmare for Chavismo, so the decision to favor Caracas is a rational one.
As electricity rationing will probably get worse, leading to more riots in Maracaibo, Chavismo may have to considering allocating Maracaibo some more electrical juice.
It’s hot alright.