The Guayaquil Chamber of Industries denounced that the Ecuadorian government announced that there will be a lack of electricity in the sector.
After the conflicts between President Daniel Noboa and his vice Verónica Abad, Ecuador goes through a new crisis in the last few days. The industries will suffer a blackout in the last fortnight of the year, while a endurance to the construction of one prison in the Amazon jungle.
This was stated by the president of the Chamber of Industries of Guayaquil, Francisco Jarrín. As reported last Thursday, the Minister of Energy, Inés Manzano, reported that the industries that are in the High Voltage 1 (AV1) and High Voltage 2 (AV2) group will suffer a two-week blackout starting December 15.
However, The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, assured that the power cuts will end on December 20, but warned that this may not be true. «If the situation does not allow us to fulfill the promise that the cuts end, we cannot burden a sector that is the engine of the economy and generates jobs. “We don’t understand the decision,” he said.
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Vase He questioned whether the president could keep his promise. “Understanding the situation, but also seeing all the sacrifices the industry has made, We do not understand why they continue to maintain these decisions in isolation, they only communicate what they decide without the industry participating“he stated.
Resistance to the construction of a prison in the Amazon
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (Confenaie) They took over the Napo Governorate this Thursday night, December 12, in rejection of the megaprison construction project in Archidona.
“The Amazonian peoples and nationalities have taken over the Government, as a de facto measure in response to the construction of the maximum security prison in ancestral indigenous territory”he detailed Confenaie in a statement released on social networks.
“We think that creating another, more dangerous prison in the vicinity of this prison is not appropriate.”they maintained from Confenaie and warned that “it will also affect one of the main sources of income of the population, which is tourism.”
Source: Ambito
