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PREPA: uncertainty about Tuesday outages

The utility executive director José Ortiz says it was sabotage, but UTIER leadership points to infrastructure problems

30 de julio de 2020 - 10:48 AM

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El director de la AEE, José Ortiz, y el presidente de la Utier, Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo.

The executive director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), José Ortiz and the president of the Electrical and Irrigation Industry Workers Union (UTIER, Spanish acronym), Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo. (Fotomontaje/GFR Media)

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The executive director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), José Ortiz, claimed that Tuesday’s outages were an act of “internal terrorism”, an expression based on photos that allegedly show a high voltage line protection system switched off, when it should have been on, and a system destabilizing event that has not yet been determined.