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Witness says recurring power outages in Venezuela destroyed homes and disrupted schools
Summary
A witness testified that frequent electricity failures in Venezuela led to ruined appliances, spoiled food and interrupted schooling, using those examples to argue about the human costs of infrastructure collapse.
The witness described repeated electrical blackouts that damaged home appliances and refrigerators, leaving families without safe food storage and forcing classes to dismiss. "Imagine having no power for many hours; power comes and goes," the witness said, linking the outages to broader humanitarian stress.
The testimony emphasized concrete household effects: refrigerators fail, food rots and families must stand in long lines to obtain basics when supply is limited. The witness said those routine disruptions contributed to broader decisions to emigrate and framed such failures as consequences of centralized policy choices rather than isolated technical problems.
The witness urged policymakers to consider the cumulative effects of infrastructure unreliability on education, food security and small businesses, describing school dismissals and lost work time as part of the daily calculation Venezuelans faced.
