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'This Is Going To End Ugly': Venezuela's Power Outage Drags On

The country has been hobbled by a blackout since Thursday. People wait in long lines for gas and water, and increasingly are having difficulty communicating by phone or Internet.
A worker inspects damage in a supermarket in Caracas on Sunday after it was looted during a days-long blackout in Venezuela.

Venezuela has been in the grip of a crippling blackout for four days — and the humanitarian situation there is growing increasingly dire.

Signs of the crisis are everywhere you look in the Venezuelan capital. "Drive around Caracas, and you see long lines of cars, waiting for hours at the few gas stations still operational," NPR's Philip Reeves reported from the city.

"Motorists park

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