Gabriela Carrasquillo

Jul 19, 2024 | periodismoinvestigativo.com | Damaris Suárezy |Damaris Suárez |Elivan Martinez Mercado |Gabriela Carrasquillo

Series The Lessons from Ondeo’s Privatization of the AAA Were Not Applied to LUMA The Government of Puerto Rico negotiated an energy transmission and distribution contract with LUMA Energy, which increases costs yearly.

Jul 18, 2024 | periodismoinvestigativo.com | Damaris Suárezy |Damaris Suárez |Elivan Martinez Mercado |Gabriela Carrasquillo

The blackouts caused Pamela López to throw away the chicken, which she would stuff with over 200 empanadas. With no way to keep the refrigerator cold, the food she would sell spoiled in mid-June during the opening of her Café-Tín business in the San Juan neighborhood of Santurce. “Not only is the ingredient lost, but also the hours of work,” she told the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI). Experiences like Lopez’s are repeated weekly for business owners and individuals throughout Puerto Rico.

Jul 18, 2024 | periodismoinvestigativo.com | Damaris Suárezy |Damaris Suárez |Elivan Martinez Mercado |Gabriela Carrasquillo

A la inestabilidad del servicio, las averías y las fluctuaciones de electricidad que experimentan los puertorriqueños, se suman el aumento continuo del costo operacional de la privatizadora LUMA Energy. “LUMA se ha mantenido dentro de su presupuesto anual para cada año fiscal”, dijo mediante declaraciones escritas el Negociado de Energía de Puerto Rico (NEPR), que fiscaliza y asegura la ejecución e implementación de la política pública del servicio eléctrico.

Jul 17, 2024 | periodismoinvestigativo.com | Elivan Martinez Mercado |Gabriela Carrasquillo

Los apagones causaron que Pamela López tirara al zafacón el pollo con el que iba a rellenar más de doscientas empanadas. Sin posibilidad de mantener la nevera fría, se le dañó la comida que iba a vender a mediados de junio, durante la inauguración de su negocio Café-Tin en el barrio sanjuanero de Santurce. “No sólo se pierde el material, sino las horas de trabajo”, dijo López al Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI).

May 16, 2024 | periodismoinvestigativo.com | Gabriela Carrasquillo

Two years after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) included an area in Guánica on its Superfund program priority list, for being a highly contaminated area, an independent public health study revealed that town residents have blood levels of 2,651% polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) higher than the average found by federal health agencies in people in the United States.