Delcy Rodríguez, interim president of Venezuela
The measure aims to contain the energy crisis in the public sector, worsened by high temperatures and frequent rationing in the country. The interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, had already announced reductions in working hours and the suspension of classes to save energy.
The current interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguezdecreed this Friday one week holiday for the public sector, at a time when the country is going through a heat wave, which worsened the energy crisis that was already being felt.
Venezuela, where rationing is frequent, had already enacted reductions in working hours and suspension of classesto save energy.
“This Holy Week, I want to announce that I declared a holiday from Monday to Friday for the entire education sector”, announced Delcy, in a statement cited by the AFP agency. “This includes ministries, as it is part of the electricity saving plan”, he added.
The Venezuelan president justified the measure by highlighting that the country is going through “45 days of high temperatures“.Essential services will not be affected.
Delcy Rodriguez assumed the interim presidency of Venezuela earlier this year, after the in Caracas, led to the capture of the then president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Venezuela frequently experiences energy supply crises, which periodically cause blackouts that leave Caracas in the dark and, sometimes, some locations without power for an entire week.
In March last year, the country faced the same energy problems as a result of a severe drought that hit the country. Water rationing led Nicolás Maduro’s government at the time to determine a scale of work with three days a week to reduce expenses.
In 2023, the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflicts documented at least 416 protests related to failures in the supply of electrical energy.
The year 2019 was particularly tough, with people across the country causing . In 2014, ironically, a blackout occurred in Venezuela.
That year, on Twitter, the hashtag was one of the five most shared in the country.
