Since "always" in Venezuela, the issue of mining as such has been considered common, speaking of the extraction of some valuable mineral or metal, but in recent years another concept has been added to the issue of mining; which is cryptocurrency mining and is very common among young Venezuelans who take this option of work that is more profitable, so much so that energy costs are very large as for example in the Zulia EDO where the governor has decided take measures against "illegal" mining due to the high energy consumption, thus affecting electrical installations that are already in poor condition. These measures consist of intervening people who carry out "illegal" mining of cryptocurrencies in the area and thus avoid the high energy consumption generated by this activity.
For many years the companies dedicated to the electric generation are public from the government, thus becoming an extremely economic service but of very poor quality, so any activity that makes a large energy consumption as it is mining tends to be observed and soon penalized.
