Venezuela Calls for Patriotism as It Plans to Ration Electricity
- Every user will go without service for 4 hours a day
- Government says rationing plan to last for next 40 days
A man walks along the street in the in the Petare neighborhood on the outskirts of Caracas.
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Venezuela will implement electricity rationing as of Monday, cutting supplies for four hours a day to every home in the country, as a drought threatens to slash output at the giant Guri dam.
The rationing will last 40 days after rains in the north of the country failed to ease the crisis, Electricity Minister Luis Motta Dominguez said Thursday on state television. The ministry will release details of the daily cuts shortly, he said.