PRIVATIZING Puerto Rico.

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  • Author(s): MORALES, ED (AUTHOR)
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    Nation. 12/14/2020, p14-19. 6p. 2 Color Photographs.
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      FEATURES On july 26, ángel figueroa jaramillo, the head of utier (Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego), Puerto Rico's electrical and irrigation workers' union, tweeted from one of the island's power generation stations. Ever since the quake, Ortiz, then the CEO of the government-owned Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), had been saying the agency did not have the capacity to get the damaged plant back up and running until then. On June 22 of this year, Puerto Rico's Public-Private Partnerships Authority announced that LUMA, a consortium between Houston-based Quanta Services and Canadian-based ATCO, two firms previously involved in the Keystone XL pipeline, would operate PREPA's distribution and transmission systems. At times the government resists it for political purposes, while the FOMB wants to shift the onus of imposing austerity onto the government so that it can act as the impartial arbiter as the government endures scandal after scandal. [Extracted from the article]
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