In this April 18, 2018 photo, Ana Arroyo stirs a pot as she uses a candle to illuminate the area over the stove, in La Chinita neighborhood, in Maracaibo, Venezuela. A massive blackout put most of Maracaibo in the dark for Christmas, and since then officials have rationed power across the sprawling city. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





In this April 18, 2018 photo, Jennifer Naranjo, 8 months pregnant, eats by the light of a shrinking candle stub, in La Chinita neighborhood, in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Naranjo's La Chinita neighborhood has gone without power since late March, when a transformer exploded. In Maracaibo scheduled blackouts eat up at least 11 hours a day, not counting unplanned failures. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





People have some soup being distributed during the campaign rally of Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate and evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci, in Catia La Mar, Vargas State, Venezuela, on April 26, 2018. Campaigning in Venezuela got off to a muted start on April 22 ahead of a divisive presidential poll on May 20 which is being boycotted by the opposition and branded illegitimate by much of the international community. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP Photo)





In this January 23, 2018 photo, a youth moves quickly to collect grains of corn from the street that fell from a truck after it was looted outside the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. At the country's biggest port, people swarmed a corn-carrying truck and began filling up sacks with the grain while the driver was held at gunpoint. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





A member of the Bolivarian Militia sits at a polling station to assist with security during presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Amidst hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is seeking a second, six-year term in an election that a growing chorus of foreign governments refuse to recognize after key opponents were barred from running. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





In this February 23, 2018 photo, Venezuelan citizens arrive to La Parada neighborhood of Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela. Aside from providing health care, border cities are also coping with an array of public safety issues, like a rise in prostitution and groups of men, women and children sleeping on the streets. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





In this April 17, 2018 photo, commuters are transported in a used station wagon in downtown Maracaibo, Venezuela. Power shortages are adding to the misery of an economic collapse on the scale of the Great Depression of the 1930s. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Juana Guerrero uses a candle to illuminate the table while she dines during a blackout in San Cristobal, Venezuela March 13, 2018. Capital city Caracas and other major cities have not been hit by rationing yet. Two years ago, rationing there lasted five months when a drought hit the Guri dam, the country's largest hydroelectric dam. (Photo by Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters)





People look at Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcon (not pictured) during a campaign event at the slum of Petare in Caracas, Venezuela March 26, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Relatives of inmates at the General Command of the Carabobo Police react as they wait outside the prison in Valencia, Venezuela March 28, 2018. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





A woman kicks at a riot police shield as relatives of prisoners wait to hear news about their family members imprisoned at a police station where a riot broke out, in Valencia, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 28, 2018. In a state police station housing more than one hundred prisoners, a riot culminated in a fire, requiring authorities to open a hole in a wall to rescue the inmates. (Photo by Juan Carlos Hernandez/AP Photo)





Relatives of inmates wait for information after a riot and a fire in the cells, outside the General Command of the Carabobo Police in Valencia, Venezuela March 29, 2018. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





Teodoro Campos, opposition lawmaker and security chief of Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcon, receives help after sustaining injury during a rally with Falcon, in Caracas, Venezuela April 2, 2018. (Photo by Rayner Pena/Reuters)





Venezuelan National Guards stand by a counter of Copa Airlines, at the Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas, Venezuela April 6, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





School children get on the back of a truck on their way to school in Socopo, Venezuela on April 25, 2018. In Socopo, in the agricultural savannah state of Barinas that was once home to Chavez, half of the 20 public schools, including Orlando Garcia, closed completely in February, mid-term. They have since reopened, but, along with the rest of Barinas' approximately 1,600 public schools, they are operating just three days a week. (Photo by Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters)





A child looks on, as volunteers of Venezuelan presidential candidate Javier Bertucci of the “Esperanza por el Cambio” party, give food plates to women and children as part of the Mothers day celebration, during a campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela May 13, 2018. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)





People observe the closing campaign rally of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela May 17, 2018. (Photo by Adriana Loureiro/Reuters)





Supporters wear mustaches depicting Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro while he speaks during a gathering after the results of the election were released, outside of the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, May 20, 2018. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





Oil floats on the surface on the Lake Maracaibo in Lagunillas, Venezuela on June 7, 2018. (Photo by Isaac Urrutia/Reuters)





Workers carry a container with molten aluminium in Caracas, Venezuela July 4, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





A helicopter from the Venezuela's Army takes part in a military parade to celebrate the 207th anniversary of Venezuela's independence in Caracas, Venezuela July 5, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Commuters ride on a cargo truck used as public transportation in Valencia, Venezuela on July 17, 2018. Cargo trucks of all shapes and sizes have taken their place, but most lack even basic safety protections for human cargo and are increasingly associated with accidents and injuries to passengers – a further sign of the deteriorating quality of life in the crisis-stricken country. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Commuters ride on a cargo truck used as public transportation in Valencia, Venezuela on July 17, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Commuters ride on a cargo truck used as public transportation in Valencia, Venezuela on July 17, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Commuters run to try to get on a cargo truck used as public transportation in Valencia, Venezuela on July 17, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





In this April 18, 2018 photo, residents of La Chinita neighborhood hold a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: “24 days without light, without answers”, during a protest in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Blackouts are nothing new under two decades of socialist rule in Venezuela. But they've grown more frequent, and are lasting longer. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Jesus Zapata cries on the coffin containing the remains of his son Erickson Zapata, at the Municipal Cemetery in Valencia, Venezuela, Friday, March 30, 2018. Weeping relatives arrived at the central cemetery on Friday carrying the caskets of many of the 68 victims who were killed in the fire to place them in a freshly dug mass tomb. Cemetery workers said they were prepared to bury at least 32 people two days after the blaze in three-deep graves separated by a layer of cinderblock. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





In this March 8, 2018 photo, Venezuelan Charlie Ivan Delgado shows his country's currency as he talks about the economic crisis at a migrant shelter that offers three meals a day where he brought his family of five, inside the Tancredo Neves Gymnasium in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil. The soccer referee has only been able to officiate a handful of games in rural areas outside the city, the kids are not in school and it's hard to imagine how the family might leave the shelter. “It's like Tarzan being in New York”, said Delgado. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)