Venezuelans rally to protest chronic power outages


  • World
  • Sunday, 31 Mar 2019

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognised as the country's rightful interim ruler, holds up a T-shirt at a rally in San Antonio, Venezuela, March 30, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

CARACAS (Reuters) - Thousands of Venezuelan opposition sympathizers protested on Saturday against recurring blackouts that crippled much of the country this month and have aggravated the OPEC nation's economic and social crisis.

Electricity has slowly been restored following a blackout on Monday that left most of Venezuela's 24 states without power. That followed a massive week-long national outage on March 7.

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