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Energy crisis in Amapá, Brazil, will last 15 days

Brasilia, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina) The Brazilian state of Amapá is suffering for the 15th consecutive day yet another blackout that this time affected the metropolitan region of Macapá, including Santana and Mazagão, and some municipalities in the interior of the country.

The Amapá Electricity Company maintains the rotation system with a deadline for the normalization of electrical energy set for November 26th, after a fire in a substation left 14 out of the 16 districts in the region without power.

The population is complaining of financial losses such as burned electronic equipment and even burned houses, especially in the periphery.

According to Rozineide Cardoso, a resident of the community on 10th Avenida do Congós, on the outskirts of Macapá, the state capital, the rationing proposed by the Electricity COmpany does not meet the stipulated schedule.

«The energy stays on for three hours, then they turn it off and it takes time to return, especially at night,» he denounced.

In the last two weeks, residents have held several protests in the city, two of them in front of the North Palace, the seat of the state government.

Daniel Lima, one of the organizers of the SOS Amapá Movement, pointed out that the population is exhausted and worried about the many damages suffered by the blackout.

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