15-03-2019 21:32 via kvoa.com

Darkness lingers for Venezuela’s most vulnerable

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Darkness has yet to lift for 72-year-old Elizabeth Guzman and thousands of her poor neighbors in a forgotten corner of Venezuela’s capital that was barely getting by even before the lights went out over a week ago.
As the sun sets each day, Guzman lights a homemade oil lamp and holds it in one hand as she navigates the stairs and narrow passages up to the windowless room that she calls her “little cave.”
“I’ve never seen a crisis like
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