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Lunes, 23/9/2024 Hola, Todos – Due to the blackouts, it will be difficult to translate on my usual schedule of M-W-F so the Periodicos will hit your inbox on odd days and at odd times (for those of you on my direct mailing list). The periodicos might also be a lot shorter since I’m trying...
Editor’s note: For the revised power blackout schedule, go to the Centrosur website and download the pdf. Overnight rain Saturday night and Sunday morning temporarily reversed the falling water level at the Mazar Reservoir and refilled ponds at Cuenca’s drinking water processing plants in the Cajas mountains. Although the National Meteorology Institute (Inamhi) described the...
Late Saturday night, the National Emergency Operations Committee ordered electric blackouts for Sunday in 12 provinces, including Azuay Province. Besides Azuay, electric service was suspended in Bolívar, Cañar, Carchi, Cotopaxi, Imbabura, Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Sucumbíos and Zamora Chinchipe Provinces for periods ranging from two to five hours during daytime hours. The 12 affected...
The National Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution condemning the government for its handling of the energy crisis. The measure claimed that officials were aware of deteriorating conditions due to the drought and delayed action in imposing electricity blackouts. The resolution claimed lack of timely response also “aggravated the security crisis and endangers the economic...
By Liam Higgins While concerns grow about the dropping reservoir level at the Paute-Mazar hydroelectric complex, energy experts say the lack of production at the Coca Codo Sinclair is being overlooked. Coca Codo, located between Napo and Sucumbios Provinces, was designed to generate 1,600 megawatts annually for the national power grid but, so far, in...
Ecuador’s Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inamhi) is predicting increasing rainfall during the last days of September and early October. On Thursday, Inamhi said rain would fall first in the Amazon region before moving into the sierra. Meteorologists said it is too early to estimate the amount of rainfall but said humidity levels and cloud...
By the Latin American Post staff The “Metástasis” case, which erupted in Ecuador in late 2023, is a powerful example of the devastating effects of corruption within a country’s judicial system. At the heart of the scandal is the alleged infiltration of organized crime into Ecuador’s legal, police, and prison systems, exposing the fragility of...
Early reports on overnight electric blackouts are “positive,” according to a government social media post Thursday morning. “The rationing schedule was carried out as planned and the National Electricity Operator [Cenace] conducted maintenance operations on 15 of the 70 transmission substations operating in the country,” a 6 a.m. statement from the Energy Ministry said. The...
The head of the commission that wrote Ecuador’s 2008 constitution, Alberto Acosta, says reestablishing a U.S. anti-narcotics base in the country is a “terrible” idea. He disagrees with claims by President Daniel Noboa that the closure of the base in 2009 allowed drug traffickers to the enter the country. “The drug gangs and cartels were...
In the latest in a series of contradictory and confusing messages, the Energy Ministry announced Wednesday morning that electric blackouts planned for Wednesday and Thursday night will be two to four hours in length with schedules determined by local electric distributors. For the schedules for Cuenca and Azuay province, click here. On Tuesday morning, Energy...
The municipal government has begun water rationing in Quito and is advising residents to expect service cuts of up to 12 hours in the coming days and weeks. “The prolonged drought and the lack of significant rainfall for 38 days has forced us to take drastic and definitive action,” the Municipal Drinking Water Company (Epmaps)...
The government clarified Tuesday afternoon that the curfew during power blackouts on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and four nights next week, applies only to six provinces and one canton. The provinces are Guayas, Los Ríos, Manabí, Orellana, Santa Helena and El Oro, which remain under emergency declaration status due to high levels of criminal...
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