Low Water Levels Mean Lights May Go Out in Caracas

  • Water levels critical at main dam providing Caracas's power
  • Key threshold could be reached as early as end of April

Nadia Rodriguez lights candles inside her home while electricity was shut off during state-mandated rationing in the Cana de Azucar neighborhood of Maracay, Venezuela, on March 21, 2016.

Photographer: Meridith Kohut/Bloomberg
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Over the past three years, Venezuelans have seen shortages of food, water, toilet paper and medicine. In some areas of the country, electricity has been curtailed.

Now, the lights may go out in the nation’s capital.