A Venezuelan woman who returned to her country after living abroad shared a heartbreaking testimony about the electrical crisis she faces daily, confessing that the reality she encountered has brought her to the verge of emigrating again.
The video, posted by user Andrews Abreu on X, shows a woman recording herself in the dark during a blackout, with the text "My God, how sad the power is" superimposed on the image.
"I'm really upset and I feel like crying, I swear," the woman says at the beginning of the video.
"Because I came to Venezuela because I wanted to be in Venezuela. I wanted to stop wandering, paying rent, being a burden in a foreign country, and to establish myself in my own country."
The woman describes electrical outages lasting five to six hours daily, with blackouts sometimes extending throughout the entire day. "Right now, it went off at 8 PM until 1 AM. Every day," she recounts.
One of the most distressing moments he recounts is his own hospitalization: "The day I was operated on, the night I had surgery, the power went out. Something that shouldn't happen."
He adds that he has been told that some hospitals are left completely in the dark during the outages, with sick patients enduring the heat.
The woman also mentions having seen news that rationing will increase to eight hours a day, which she considers a sign of the severe deterioration of the Venezuelan electrical system.
Firmly reject the solution proposed by those who have become accustomed to the situation: "Buy a generator, buy this. No, man, no. That’s not getting used to it."
And it concludes with a direct comparison: "I prefer to leave. Pay my rent, pay my bills. It doesn’t matter, but you know that when you get home, man, you have your TV on, your air conditioning, your fan."
The testimony reflects a chronic electricity crisis that is worsening in Venezuela in May 2026, with Corpoelec managing outages of between five and 10 hours daily under the Load Management Plan.
The 45-day "Energy Savings Plan" announced by Delcy Rodríguez expired on May 6 without the power cuts stopping or a new official schedule being published.
Regions such as Maracaibo, in the Zulia state, have gone from three-hour cuts three times a week to six-hour outages almost daily. The state corporation is rationing about 1,800 megawatts due to its inability to meet the demand of the National Electric System.
The phenomenon of Venezuelan migration return is real but minority.
According to the International Organization for Migration, in the first quarter of 2026, there were 120,000 departures of Venezuelans compared to only 15,000 returns, indicating that the net migration flow continues to be outbound.
In the political sphere, the capture of Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, generated expectations for change.
The interim government opted for the opening to foreign capital and the reactivation of the Venezuelan oil sector, with Chevron's exports tripling between December 2025 and March 2026, but the electrical infrastructure has not shown tangible improvements for the population.
The woman also mentions the additional economic pressure: the parallel dollar rises every day, going from 4.90 to 4.93 in consecutive days according to her references.
The energy crisis in Venezuela has been deteriorating for over 15 years due to a lack of investment, the obsolescence of power plants, and institutional corruption.
"It makes me angry because one wants to be here. And just like me, many wanted to come here, the Venezuelan dream. But one gets discouraged," the woman concludes, summarizing the frustration of thousands who returned with hope only to find the same ongoing crisis.
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