MaracaiboBlackouts now last 6 to 15 hours daily outside Caracas.
Residents in Venezuela have blocked roads at night in Turmero and Valencia since August.
A turbine at the Guri hydroelectric plant that generated 770MW collapsed, and the government blames El Niño drought.
“Yesterday we didn’t have electricity for 11 hours,” said Yanira, a 33-year-old designer in Maracaibo.
Authorities answered with shorter public-sector hours and a deal with shopping malls to cut consumption.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices leans critical
- centres the Maracaibo blackouts through one family's daily life (11 hours without power, a 73-year-old father) rather than policy
Sources: Global Voices