Spring has arrived in Venezuela. BLACKOUT season! It's "dying time" again!

[GatoGordo]

Yes... due to lusty iguanas who fornicate on transformers, and anti-Bolivarian/counter-revolutionary saboteurs (and not failure to maintain and upgrade the national power grid), the Venezuelan electrical grid is again in full meltdown mode.

Three people died in Táchira as a result of the blackouts

http://www.diariolaregion.net/2018/03/14/tres-personas-fallecieron-en-tachira-como-consecuencia-de-los-apagones/

Six newborn babies died in Venezuela due to electrical failure in hospital

https://noticias.caracoltv.com/mundo/seis-bebes-recien-nacidos-murieron-en-venezuela-por-falla-electrica-en-hospital

[COLGATE4]

1. This is even more pathetic when you consider that

prior to Chavez' election the government of Carlos Andres Perez had a massive program for improving electric generation and distribution in Venezuela. They actually began it with a huge success on Margarita island but then Chavez was elected. He promptly nationalized the system of Margarita island and cancelled all the rest of the very ambitious plan. Since then, it has been a one-two punch of "roba-roba" (unbridled robbery) and total neglect of an already overburdened and inadequate electric system leading to the current deplorable state of affairs.

[left-of-center2012]

2. When it's "Spring" in the northern hemisphere ...

It's "Fall" in Venezuela.

(Due to the position of the Sun)

Autumn 2018 in Southern Hemisphere began on Tuesday, March 20
and ends on Thursday, June 21.

[GatoGordo]

3. Venezuela is in the Northern Hemisphere...6.4238 N, 66.5897 W. It's spring.

... but you are correct about the Southern Hemisphere. They just entered their autumn season.