Venezuela blackout : NPR

'New York Times' Journalist Describes An 'Almost Unimaginable' Crisis In Venezuela

Venezuela's power grid crashed on March 7, 2019, throwing almost all of the oil-rich nation's 30 million residents into chaos for nearly a week. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption

toggle caption

Ariana Cubillos/AP

Latin America

'New York Times' Journalist Describes An 'Almost Unimaginable' Crisis In Venezuela

Fresh Air

April 2, 2019 • New York Times reporter Nicholas Casey was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in March 2019 during a six-day power outage. "By the fourth day," he says, "you started to hear shots getting fired in the street."

'New York Times' Journalist Describes An 'Almost Unimaginable' Crisis In Venezuela

Listen · 37:43 37:43

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/709055837/709184841" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript