This February 14, 2019 photo shows a portion of the Petare shanty town, one of Latin America's largest slums, in Caracas, Venezuela. Some 400,000 people live crowded into the thousands of brightly colored cinderblock homes that blanket the Caracas hillsides as far as the eye can see. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





A woman takes a selfie in the pool of an hotel in Caracas on March 14, 2019. Venezuela's public employees were called to return to work Thursday after the government ended a nearly week-long hiatus caused by an unprecedented nationwide blackout that deepened widespread anger against President Nicolas Maduro. Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in an address on state television Wednesday that Maduro decided the public sector would resume work on Thursday, although state schools would remain closed for an extra day. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP Photo)





People bath at a brook in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. After days of intermittent electricity supply in Venezuela, which affects the water supply, the people in the capital city have started to collect water from waterfalls and wells and carry it to their homes. (Photo by Boris Vergara/AP Photo)





In this February 14, 2019 photo, Carmen Victoria Gimenez, 43, shops at a farmers market in the middle-class district of Los Dos Caminos, in Caracas, Venezuela. “I earn much more than the minimum wage and I still struggle”, she said. “I can't even imagine how the poorest of the poor survive”. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, March 16, 2019 photo, people cheer for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president, at a rally in Valencia, Venezuela. Large crowds gathered in the northern Venezuelan city to greet Guaido, who plans to tour the country as part of his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





People jockey to enter a bus during a power outage that suspended the subway service in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 25, 2019. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Passengers on the Metro, which has resumed operation after a major power outage in Caracas, Venezuela on March 15, 2019. (Photo by TASS/Barcroft Images)





Detainees get on a truck after they were caught looting during an ongoing blackout in Caracas, Venezuela March 10, 2019. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





People cross from Cucuta in Colombia back to San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela after buying goods to resell, through improvised bridged on the “trochas”, illegal trails on the border between the two countries near the Simon Bolivar international bridge, on March 21, 2019. Venezuela is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis due to shortages of food and medicine exacerbated by hyperinflation. (Photo by Juan Pablo Bayona/AFP Photo)





In this Saturday, March 16, 2019 photo, a supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds a picture of the late President Hugo Chavez during an anti-imperialist march in Caracas, Venezuela. Many were clad in red, the color associated with the movement led by Chavez, the former military officer who declared a socialist “revolution” after coming to power in 1999. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A woman sits on a concrete planter surrounded by litter, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Much of Venezuela remains without electricity as a new power outage spread across the country. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





People collect water falling from a leaking pipeline along the banks of the Guaire River during rolling blackouts, which affects access to running water in people's homes, offices and stores, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 11, 2019. The blackout has intensified the toxic political climate, with opposition leader Juan Guaido blaming alleged government corruption and mismanagement and President Nicolas Maduro accusing his U.S.-backed adversary of sabotaging the national grid. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





People block one of the streets to show their anger because of the ongoing blackout in Caracas, Venezuela March 10, 2019. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)





People detained by security forces after looting broke out during an ongoing blackout are pictured in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2019. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





People detained by security forces lie on the street after looting broke out during an ongoing blackout in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2019. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





People wave the national flag from their windows during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, March 12, 2019. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





People wash themselves along a road at an area that is flooded due to a broken pipe in San Felix, Venezuela on March 12, 2019. (Photo by William Urdaneta/Reuters)





A man carries containers filled with water at a desalination plant in La Guaira, March 13, 2019. (Photo by Manaure Quintero/Reuters)





A local carries a water container as he crosses a river in Caracas, March 12, 2019. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





Police stand guard in anticipation of a march called by a coalition of opposition parties and civic groups who are petitioning lawmakers for a law of guarantees that will protect workers who have been victims of political retaliation and unjustified dismissals, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





A police stands guard in anticipation of a march called by a coalition of opposition parties and civic groups who are petitioning lawmakers for a law of guarantees that will protect workers who have been victims of political retaliation and unjustified dismissals, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Police stand guard in anticipation of a march called by a coalition of opposition parties and civic groups who are petitioning lawmakers for a law of guarantees that will protect workers who have been victims of political retaliation and unjustified dismissals, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this Monday, March 18, 2019 photo, a street artist performs in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans are facing a severe economic and political crisis as President Nicolas Maduro has remained in power despite heavy pressure from the United States and other countries arrayed against him, managing to retain the loyalty of most of Venezuela's military leaders. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





In this February 14, 2019 photo, Dugleidi Salcedo complains to a neighbor about the high price of food as she prepares arepas for her three sons in her kitchen in the Petare slum, in Caracas, Venezuela. Hunger drove Salcedo to send her four-year-old daughter to live with an aunt when she could no longer feed her. “My boys cry”, the single mother of four said. “But they resist more than her when I tell them that there’s no food”. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





A woman fills a container with water from a truck in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. After days of intermittent electricity supply in Venezuela, which affects the water supply, the people in the capital city have started to collect water from waterfalls and wells and carry it to their homes. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





A man waits to get some food at a garbage dump in Las Minas de Baruta neighborhood, Caracas, Venezuela, on March 14, 2019. Venezuela's public employees were called to return to work Thursday after the government ended a nearly week-long hiatus caused by an unprecedented nationwide blackout that deepened widespread anger against President Nicolas Maduro. Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in an address on state television Wednesday that Maduro decided the public sector would resume work on Thursday, although state schools would remain closed for an extra day. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP Photo)





Passengers ride on a bus with messages scrawled on it that read in Spanish “No to war”, and “We want peace”, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 14, 2019. With long lines at the stops of public transport and crowds of people at the entrance of some banking agencies, Venezuelans returned to activity on Thursday after four days of paralysis as a result of the biggest blackout in the country's history. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo)





Enrique Quiroga, a moto-taxi driver, speaks with his son in Spain as he and other motorists stop on the road near a working cell phone tower during rolling blackouts in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 11, 2019. Some say the cell phone tower is one of the few in regular operation, transforming the spot into one of the city’s most popular destinations. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Eight-year-old Franyelis feeds her baby brother Joneiber as their mother Francibel Contreras holds a bowl of scrambled eggs and rice, at a soup kitchen in the Petare slum, Caracas, Venezuela. Contreras brings her three malnourished children to the soup kitchen in the dangerous hillside slum where they scoop in spoonfuls of food in what could be their only meal of the day. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





People line up at a bus stop during a power outage that suspended the subway service in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 25, 2019. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





Workers and neighbors stand outside a grocery shop in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Much of Venezuela remains without electricity as a new power outage spread across the country. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





A little girl stands inside a plastic barrel while her family waits to collect water from an open pipe above the Guaire River, during rolling blackouts which affect the water pumps in people's homes, offices and stores, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 11, 2019. The blackout has intensified the toxic political climate, with opposition leader Juan Guaido blaming alleged government corruption and mismanagement and President Nicolas Maduro accusing his U.S.-backed adversary of sabotaging the national grid. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)