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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Police Repress Demonstration Against Luma in Puerto Rico</h1>August 27, 2022</div>
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<img src="cid:ii_l7eg3fa50" alt="image.png" width="418" height="237"><br><p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Teachers
Federation also joined Thursday night's protest, as did the president of
the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), Juan Dalmau.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">�� 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 <a href="https://twitter.com/lumaenergypr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lumaenergypr</a>, a U.S. and Canadian company, that hasn't been able to improve the electric grid of PR. <a href="https://t.co/pDq7piViUS">pic.twitter.com/pDq7piViUS</a></p> — budpuertorico (@budpuertoricoII)
<a href="https://twitter.com/budpuertoricoII/status/1562964262431047680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2022</a>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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