Maracaibo, a sweltering city near the border with Colombia, has become the face of Venezuela's meltdown. Its 1.7 million desperate people have turned resourceful to survive
MARACAIBO, Venezuela—Igro Alvarez once was a mechanic on offshore oil rigs that produced vast riches. Now, he digs with pick and shovel to help residents in a city reeling from blackouts and scarcity to access another vital underground resource: water.
“We can’t depend on the state anymore,” the 47-year-old Mr. Alvarez, shirtless and barefoot, said as he took a break from using a pulley to haul buckets of dirt from a 60-foot well he was digging next to an apartment complex here. “Now everyone has to fend for themselves.”
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