Venezuela’s Overwhelming Electricity Crisis
Simultaneous pressures are colliding at the worst possible time, making power generation a central test of the country’s capacity to recover.
Venezuela is enduring its most intense wave of blackouts since 2019, and the timing could not be worse for a country attempting a full-scale economic recovery. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has called for water and electricity rationing amid rising social tensions over the outages. In an Americas Quarterly article in February, we argued that Venezuela’s electricity system had to be reinvented rather than simply repaired. That diagnosis has only become more urgent after the devastating twin earthquakes in June and the growing risk of...
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