SHUT YOUR FACE GRANDMA
V Caracas (AFP) - A long weekend could mean three precious days to catch up on sleep, spend time with family, enjoy a getaway... or, in Venezuela, standing in snaking lines at supermarkets whose shelves are bare and whose lights could go out at any minute.

That was how Isleida, a government employee at the Venezuelan transport ministry, planned to spend the first of two months of mandatory Fridays off.
The measure, which applies across the public sector, was decreed this week by President Nicolas Maduro as part of an emergency plan to save electricity while Venezuela struggles through an economic crisis and a severe power shortage.
Isleida spent the morning doing housework, then planned to go shop for food -- a scarce commodity in the recession-racked country.
"It shouldn't be like this. We're paralyzing the country. Lots of things aren't getting done," said Isleida, a 50-something woman whose name has been changed to protect her from scrutiny -- or worse -- by government officials.
The socialist government blames the electricity shortage on three years of drought, which have choked off the 18 hydroelectric dams the country relies on for power.
But some economists warned that shutting down the public sector once a week would only make the recession worse.
"The impact of the electricity crisis will be devastating for the country's productivity, which was already clearly depressed. It's horrifying to see the condition of our economy and infrastructure," said economist Luis Vicente Leon.
"It's even more horrifying that the only official response to the fact that there's no light is to turn out the lights."
Blackouts have swept the country because of the crisis.
The drought has caused officials to implement water rationing, too, adding to the headaches of a nation already suffering shortages of food, basic goods like deodorant and