Nationwide power blackout hits Venezuela
A nationwide blackout hit Venezuela on Monday, leaving many without power.
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A nationwide blackout hit Venezuela on Monday, leaving many without power.
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Electricity slowly returned in most areas of Caracas on Saturday after Venezuela struggled through the third major blackout of March.
Crowds collect water from dirty streams, nurses pump ventilators by hand in darkened hospitals and charities struggle to feed children as Venezuela continues to suffer the dire effects of its most profound blackout in decades.
In a televised address Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the recovery from power outages will be "little by little," adding the outage was an "electronic coup" carried out by "criminal minds."
Most of Venezuela still had no power Friday evening, more than 20 hours after a massive outage left over 70% of the country without electricity.
The island-wide blackout that hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday is not expected to affect the Major League Baseball game between the Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians scheduled in San Juan.
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