After a tumultuous year in Venezuela with unprecedented blackouts, the country's government has put up brilliant displays of Christmas lights, trying to spread a little holiday cheer. Cars filled with families have choked a Caracas avenue as Christmas approaches to see one of the displays President
1 / 6APTOPIX Venezuela Christmas LightsA couple kisses next to Christmas lights strung over El Guaire River in Caracas, Venezuela, late Dec. 18, 2019. While the decorations are designed to spread holiday cheer, Caracas residents have painful memories from earlier this year when the entire country went dark for days amid blackouts, and millions continue to live without lights, or any electricity, a good part of each day.
The lights glow as people still have painful memories from March, when the nation went dark for four days in the nation's worst-ever power failure. Millions outside the capital still go without lights — or any electricity — a good part of each day. Maduro's socialist government has staged more than 20 light displays across the capital of Caracas and several others in cities throughout the country.
Residents say they don't recall such extravagant light displays previously, especially in the last few years as the once-wealthy oil nation has spiraled into political and economic crisis. “The unruly right is quick to criticize our Christmas lights on El Guaire in 2019,” Villegas tweeted. “But it seemed pleasant enough when @hcapriles lit up Las Mercedes in 2006.”
Office worker Williams Chang, 34, walked with his family along a wide boulevard decorated with giant, illuminated candy canes, stars and trees wrapped with strings of lights. Until the lights went in, it was a place people avoid at night.
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