[News] Police Repress Demonstration Against Luma in Puerto Rico

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Police Repress Demonstration Against Luma in Puerto RicoAugust 27, 2022
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The Police of the State of Puerto Rico, a dependent territory of the United
States, dispersed Thursday night a demonstration of dozens of Puerto Ricans
in Old San Juan, who were staging a protest against LUMA Energy due to the
constant power outages.

This is the most recent episode of the protests that have been shaking the
Caribbean island for days, although it is the first one that culminated
with a confrontation between demonstrators and police, and one person
arrested.

The Teachers Federation also joined Thursday night's protest, as did the
president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), Juan Dalmau.

�� Puerto Ricans are again on the streets of Old San Juan, in front of the
Governor's Mansion, protesting against the incompetence and corruption of
the private electric utility @lumaenergypr
<https://twitter.com/lumaenergypr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>, a U.S. and Canadian
company, that hasn't been able to improve the electric grid of PR.
pic.twitter.com/pDq7piViUS <https://t.co/pDq7piViUS>
— budpuertorico (@budpuertoricoII) August 26, 2022
<https://twitter.com/budpuertoricoII/status/1562964262431047680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

The demonstrations followed calls made last Monday by a group of
legislators from the House of Representatives and social organizations to
mobilize as a way to put pressure on the pro-U.S. Governor Pedro Pierluisi
to cancel the contract granted to LUMA Energy.

LUMA Energy is the consortium that since last year is in charge of the
transmission and distribution of electricity in Puerto Rico, one of the
results of the privatization of the network on the island controlled by the
United States.

The population's complaints are due to a spate of blackouts and other
service interruptions over the past two weeks, which left hundreds of
thousands of people, businesses and even hospitals without electricity.
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