CARACAS, Venezuela - Darkness has yet to lift for 72-year-old Elizabeth Guzman and thousands of her poor neighbours in a forgotten corner of Venezuela’s capital that was barely getting by even before the lights went out over a week ago. But residents in the hillside Caracas slum of Santa Cruz of the East don't know when they'll be so lucky. “It makes me so sad.” Venezuela’s power grid crashed on March 7, throwing almost all of the oil-rich nation’s 30 million residents into chaos. President Nicolas Maduro blamed the blackouts on a U.S.-led cyberattack targeting the Guri Dam, the main engine of Venezuela’s power grid. Irritated residents have been left to see the darkness as a symbol of their misery.

Source: thestar March 15, 2019 20:26 UTC