Venezuela’s Electricity Deficit
Venezuela’s Electricity Deficit
Since the government nationalized electricity, Venezuelans have been increasingly left in the dark. And they’re getting angry about it.
Venezuela is currently suffering its second electricity emergency in three years. The first was declared by the government in February 2010.
Closings of major roads, public complaints in the media and frequent outage reports on the #Sinluz (No light) Twitter account paint a grim picture of daily life in Venezuela. The reasons are fairly straightforward: since it nationalized the electrical system, the government has failed to build enough new power plants and to maintain existing ones.
According to the Ricardo Zuloaga Group—a group of electricity-sector experts based...
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