Tension due to power cuts: the inhabitants of Floresta claim in front of the headquarters of Edesur and there are more than 100,000 victims in the AMBA

Despite recent rains they calmed the intense heat wave which has affected the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA) in recent weeks, more than 100,000 users of the region were without light around 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, according to official data provided by the National Electricity Regulatory Entity.

Faced with this scenario and like yesterday, the day when the thermal sensation exceeded 42 degrees—, hundreds of concerned residents decided to block streets and throw punches to demand at different points of the AMBA.

In the city of Buenos Aires, in particular, the offices of Edesur located in the district of Forest They were also a point where a major blackout was achieved at the intersection of Avenues Juan Bautista Alberdi and Avenida Lacarra. There, as the afternoon progressed, the tension grew and bonfires were recorded on the asphalt in front of a building guarded by the Buenos Aires police.

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In this sense, only in the territory operated by Edesur there was a total of 96,067 customers Without service in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires Mataderos, Villa Lugano, Flores, Liniers, Mataderos, Monserrat, Parque Chacabuco, Villa Crespo, Villa Riachuelo, Almagro, Balvanera, Boedo, Caballito, Constitución, Floresta, Monte Castro, Nueva Pompeya, San Telmo , Villa del Parque, Villa Devoto, Villa Real, Villa Soldati and Villa Santa Rita.

About the Province of Buenos AiresThe neighborhoods of Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Esteban Echeverria, Ezeiza, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Quilmes, San Vicente, Florencio Varela and President Perón are affected.

As it concerns Edenora total of 4,357 users were without electricity due to medium or low voltage service interruptions in the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Palermo, Agronomía, Belgrano, Chacarita, Colegiales, Núñez, Recoleta, Saavedra, Villa Ortuzar and Villa Pueyrredón.

As for the suburbs, meanwhile, the neighborhoods of San Isidro, General Rodríguez, La Matanza, Malvinas Argentinas, Marcos Paz, Moreno, Morón, Pilar, 3 de Febrero, General San Martín, Hurlingham, José C. Paz, San Fernando, San Miguel, Tigre and Vicente Lopez.

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“You can’t be without light, because the apartments are all electric. It’s a shame, but it’s not from now. It’s been going on since 2001 and it’s never improved,” he said in a dialogue with the channel. C5N a neighbor at the gates of the Edesur office in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Vélez Sársfield.

“You have to make a quilombo for the light to come back. I went in and I broke the bars, broke the windows. I’m not a piquetero or anything, I work and I have a disabled daughter. I was without light and without water. They promised me that they would send me a team and after 15 minutes I had electricity, so how is it going?” asked another affected neighbor.

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