President Nicolas Maduro announced on Friday that the electricity rationing program, which was launched in April to address the severe drought that crimped the operations of the OPEC nation's hydroelectric generators, will end as of Monday. In a televised broadcast the president said: "Today we can say that Guri has recovered and we have the conditions under which power service can function normally." The programme aimed to alleviate a severe electricity crisis brought on by the country's worst drought in 40 years, brought by the El Nino weather phenomenon. This had a great impact in the country as the 70% of Venezuela’s electricity is produced by the Guri dam.

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The government says it averted an opposition-led plan to sabotage the power system, which left at least three dead. Maduro says that the collapse was is a result of an "economic war" by capitalists. However, critics say it's the result of economic mismanagement.

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