The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, once again decreed this Friday a new state of emergency at the national level for 60 days, this time due to the serious energy crisis that the country is going through, with blackouts lasting up to eight hours due to not being able to meet the national demand for electricity.
Through a decree, Noboa ordered "the mobilization and intervention of the National Police and the Armed Forces throughout the national territory, duly coordinated, to guarantee the security of critical energy infrastructure facilities to prevent sabotage, terrorist attacks or other threats that may affect its functioning".
Since last Sunday, Ecuador has been suffering daily blackouts in different areas lasting up to eight hours, as the Mazar reservoir, the second largest in the country, has run out of sufficient water level, which allows a complex of three hydroelectric plants to operate with a power of 1,757 megawatts, equivalent to around a third of national demand.
Added to this is the cutoff of the electricity supply from Colombia, which is also facing a situation of great drought that does not allow it to generate surplus electricity to export to Ecuador.
