But when I woke up, I realized it was an outage.'' Venezuela's power grid relies heavily on the Guri Dam, a giant hydroelectric power station that was inaugurated in the late 1960s. The electrical ...

Located in the eastern reaches of Venezuela, Lake Guri and hundreds of its islands are completely manmade. Their creation is the result of a large hydroelectric project which included the building ...

Chavez blames energy shortages on a drought and low water levels at Guri Dam, which supplies about 70% of Venezuela's electricity. Critics blame them on the President's failure to invest enough in ...