Country Analysis Brief: Venezuela
The power crisis worsened in 2019, with a nationwide blackout between March 7 and March 14 that affected all 23 states, Caracas, and the neighboring Brazilian state of Roraima.
The power outage that hit Venezuela's capital on Saturday, as the US launched targeted air strikes in a bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro, offers a rare glimpse into how cyber, space, and elec...
The power crisis worsened in 2019, with a nationwide blackout between March 7 and March 14 that affected all 23 states, Caracas, and the neighboring Brazilian state of Roraima.
When large parts of Caracas went dark in the early hours of the morning, the outage appeared sudden, surgical, and brief. Within minutes, US
Access to electricity (% of population) - Venezuela, RB from The World Bank: Data
Two well-known recovery plans, the Venezuelan Electricity Sector Recovery Plan (VESRP) and the Country Plan Electricity (CPE), are described in detail, and their challenges are
The darkness that descended over Caracas in the hours before Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured on January 3, 2026 by the US military marked a striking illustration of
Several neighborhoods in Caracas were again without electricity several hours after power was restored from the 30 August blackout. No explanation for the outages was provided as of 2 September, but
Besides the lack of details of the purported hack of Venezuela''s power infrastructure, electricity experts have said that the country''s grid has
The US has not said that it hit any power infrastructure, and there is no independent confirmation that it did so. But Venezuelan officials said some substations were seriously affected in
The capital of Venezuela isn''t able to escape the precariousness being suffered in the rest of the country. Large sectors of the city go without