For 27 days, only one generator set at the old Acandí fuel plant has been working and the community is suffering from serious electricity rationing.
Commerce, tourism, fishermen, and ordinary inhabitants have hardships and great economic losses. In February of this year, Acandí also suffered 17-day rationing. When one part of the plant is repaired, another is damaged a few days later.
This morning a fair protest was held in Acandí demanding that the national and departmental governments solve the energy issue, above all, that the El Tigre-Unguía-Acandí electrical interconnection line be built, an issue defined in point six of the agreement signed as a result of the Chocó civic strike on August 17, 2016.
A protest vigil will be held at night.
For more than seven years, the national government has committed to interconnecting the eleven municipalities that are outside the national electrical system.
And specifically for the Choco region of Darién, the national and departmental governments have failed to comply with what they signed: “The government of Chocó and the national government undertake to finance the construction of the El Tigre-Unguía-Acandí electrical interconnection line.”
Unguía and Acandí, two livestock and tourist jewels of Chocó, continue to suffer the torment of precarious energy generation with diesel fuel plants that have a short useful life, and are inefficient, expensive and polluting. The definitive solution is the electrical interconnection of Unguía and Acandí to the national grid, but the national and departmental governments of the last seven years have mocked the agreements signed with the Chocó people.
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