Venezuela’s Hapless President Nicolas Maduro has
designated every Friday in the months of April and
May as a non-working holiday, in a bid to save
electricity.
The country will unveil details of a 60-day plan to
conserve energy Thursday, Maduro said, adding
that measures would include asking large users
such as shopping malls and hotels to generate their
own electricity for nine hours a day.
Heavy industries operating in the country will be
asked to cut consumption by 20 percent, he said.
“This plan for 60 days, for two months, will allow
the country to get through the most difficult period
with the most risk,” Maduro said on state television
late Wednesday.
“I call on families, on the youth, to join this plan
with discipline, with conscience and extreme
collaboration to confront this extreme situation” of
the drought blamed on the El Nino weather system.
The announcement comes after Maduro shut down
the country for a week over the Easter holiday last
month, giving workers an extra three days off.
We have detailed exclusively on Nairametrics how
ideologically rigid states like Venezuela and
increasingly Nigeria are being destroyed
economically by socialist policies.
Since Nigeria has increasingly borrowed
Venezuelas policies on FX, fuel subsidies and
capital controls we hope this is not something the
Buhari administration intends to copy.

http://nairametrics.com/boom-venezuela-declares-every-friday-a-holiday-to-save-electricity/

Wow!!! TGIF things.