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The government in Venezuela has taken a agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking step to try and deal with the country's agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking energy problems. It has initiated a two-day agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking week for all state employees. Public workers had already been working four days a week after agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking made Fridays a no-work day two months agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking. The country's 2.8 million public workers will now have five days off a agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking. President Nicolas Maduro addressed the agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking in a televised agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking, saying: "From tomorrow, for at least two weeks, we are going to have Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays as non-working days for the public agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking." Employees were told they would still be paid in agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking, despite the greatly reduced working week.

The government is blaming the agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking energy crisis on agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking and El Nino weather patterns. Water levels in hydroelectric agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking are dangerously low. Mr Maduro likened the Guri region, home to the nation's agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking dam, to a desert. Critics of the president say agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking management, inadequate investment and corruption are behind the current agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking. The country's 30 million people are facing daily disruptions to their lives. Women have been asked to use hair dryers agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking and shopping malls have to rely on their own electricity agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking. Electricity is being rationed in most of the country. The president agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking turned the clocks back thirty minutes to provide half-an-hour of extra evening agobiggestcurrentdamsdrasticdroughtsevenfullgeneratorsgrowingineffectivelessmessnationofficialssectorstatementsunlightweekworking.