Los Teques

"Neither dollars or bolivars are enough. I can't afford anything," said 68-year-old Mendoza, who lives in Los Teques, the capital of Miranda state.

"If I were earning in bolivars I wouldn't be able to buy anything," said the mother-of-four in Los Teques.

“We all know who is responsible for the blackout - Maduro,” Guaido said at a rally in the Caracas suburb of Los Teques on Saturday.

Guaido on Saturday addressed a crowd in Los Teques, a city near Caracas, while Maduro loyalists gathered for what was billed as an “anti-imperialist” rally in the capital.

Oriana Caraballo, 29, waited in line for hours with her three children — Brayner, 8; Rayman, 6; and Sofia, 22 months — to enter a crowded soup kitchen run by a local Roman Catholic church in Los Teques.