Venezuela's Bid to Revive Key Power Plant Hits a Snag

  • State company woos Argentine company Impsa to finish turbines
  • Work, school canceled with much of nation lacking electricity
A person uses a mobile phone to illuminate goods at a supermarket during a power outage in Caracas on March 10.Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg
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Venezuela, back in the dark again, is struggling to find help for its failing electric system.

Another blackout was enveloping Caracas and much of the nation Tuesday, but U.S. sanctions and opposition from the Inter-American Development Bank have derailed the regime’s plans to woo an Argentine turbine maker to activate two units at a hydroelectric plant that would provide a modicum of relief, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.