Carora blackout: 13-hour outage exposes systemic grid fragility in Venezuela

A transformer failure in Carora's Colonial Zone left ~20 families without power for over 13 hours, with state utility Corpoelec unable to respond, forcing residents to self-manage repairs. This incident reflects chronic underinvestment and systemic vulnerability in Venezuela's national electrical grid, which has seen repeated failures. The event underscores the ongoing deterioration of basic services infrastructure in the country.