“Return To Middle Ages”: Venezuela Again Plunged Into Darkness, Red Cross Mobilizes
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 03/30/2019
Ahead of broad opposition protests planned for Saturday, Caracas and other large cities across Venezuela were once again plunged into darkness Friday evening, just as the country struggled to fully recover from prior days-long outages.
The latest blackout began just after 7:00pm, leaving most of the capital as well as Valencia, Maracay, San Cristobal and Maracaibo without electricity, again crippling the country’s transport, communication, water, and hospital infrastructures.
Reports this week have described the recent spate of mass outages as taking the already ailing and largely neglected infrastructure back to the Middle Ages, with descriptions of rotting and souring food on supermarket shelves, citizens making oil lamps, and Caracas residents washing dishes in nearby El Avila mountain streams due to lack of electricity to the city’s water pumps.
Venezuelans have also had to traverse long distances on foot to get to work, or complete simple tasks like retrieving food and supplies.
Sad days for Venezuelans every day! Their infrastructure has never been repaired for decades now it all crumbles down… #Venezuela #Caracas https://t.co/pjszPvEbtW
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis ❁ (@sotiridi) March 29, 2019
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