President Nicolas Maduro seen as intent on staying put.
Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel on Sunday as the country entered a fourth day of a nationwide blackout that has left already-scarce food rotting in shops, homes suffering for lack of water and cell phones without reception.
The country's worst-ever power outage comes as Maduro faces a hyperinflationary economic collapse and an unprecedented political crisis. Opposition leader Juan Guaido in January invoked the constitution to assume the presidency after declaring Maduro's 2018 re-election a fraud. Merchants unable to maintain refrigerators working began giving away cheese, vegetables and meat to clients.A small supermarket in a working-class area of western Caracas was looted on Saturday night after protesters barricaded an avenue and clashed with police, according to neighbours and the shop's owner Manuel Caldeira.
"While the promoters of hate, death and violence delight in their destabilisation plans, President Nicolas Maduro has ordered a deployment of ministers to ensure the Venezuelan people are attended to," he said. Speaking on US broadcast network ABC's"This Week," US national security adviser John Bolton said Venezuela's military was having conversations with opposition legislators"about what might come, how they might move to support the opposition".
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