A man filling a drum with water in the Cardoncito 2 neighbourhood in the Antonio Borjas community in Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela. In Venezuela’s once prosperous oil capital, the electricity goes out for hours, there is no petrol and water is rationed for days at a time. — AFP
IN Venezuela’s oil capital of Maracaibo, a drilling frenzy has led to dozens of new wells – but the valuable liquid being pumped out is just water, not petroleum.
In a symbol of the woes of Venezuela’s crumbling economy, the once flourishing oil town of two million people is parched.
