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Citizens in one Western country are hunting pigeons, cats and even dogs for food because of an economic crisis that has emptied supermarket shelves and led to lengthy blackouts. Ramon Muchacho, mayor of the Chacao region in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, ...

  Venezuela’s president has ordered government workers to work only two days a week in order to conserve power and to prevent blackouts. The order means that government offices in the South America nation will be closed five days a ...

The nightmare of empty supermarket shelves and long lines to buy food has come true in one South American country. News reports out of Venezuela indicate that the country’s citizens are now standing in line for six hours or more, ...

Utilities, large corporations and the federal government are so worried about the power grid going down for weeks or months that they are planning a massive drill to test the response to such a scenario – and former US Sen. ...

A failure of the power grid left 70 percent of the nation of Venezuela without electricity in early September. Venezuela was the world’s eighth-largest net oil exporter in 2010, and, the same year, had the second-largest natural gas reserves in the ...