Venezuela's Maduro Institutes Plan To Ration Electricity As Outages Spur More Protest
Maduro pleaded with the public to remain calm and resist violence as the country's top "specialists, scientists and hackers" work to put an end to power, water and communications blackouts.
by Vanessa Romo
Apr 01, 2019
2 minutes
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Sunday instituted a plan to ration electricity as the troubled government scrambles to repair the country's electrical system amid worsening economic and political conditions.
Maduro pleaded with the public to remain calm and resist violence as what he called "specialists, scientists and hackers" work to put an end to power and water outages.
"I have approved a 30-day plan to, explaining it will help curb the outages that have recently thrown the country into chaos for days at a time.
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