Chihuahua: Electricity cut off in La Boquilla due to the possible arrival of the National Guard

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A night of great tension was lived this Thursday in the vicinity of La Boquilla , where hundreds of local producers reinforced the defense of the dam before the arrival of a new convoy of the National Guard. Since Thursday afternoon, the producers warned that they would protect the dam due to the suspicion that the National Guard would try to regain control of it and at the edge of 10 p.m., the municipal seat of San Francisco de Conchos and the entire area of Nozzle has lost power.

Similarly, it was reported that in the place where the turbines are located, the cell phone and internet signal fell. The mayor of San Francisco de Conchos, José Ramírez Carrasco , also pointed out that a group of infiltrators entered the area of ​​the turbines to start a fire spilling Diesel among garbage, he also said that these people had left two candles, packages with clothes full of worms and two bouquets of flowers, this near the turbine that was closed when the custody of the dam was taken from the National Guard.

Regarding the fire , the mayor explained that the presence of the Fire Department was requested since the turbine area was bathed in Diesel and there was a latent risk of a fire. After these events, producers and authorities denounced the presence of infiltrators in the place where these incidents occurred and are on high alert for the possibility that, taking advantage of the circumstances, the National Guard decides to enter the valve area.

Since the afternoon, local deputies, mayors of the region and others such as Alfredo Lozoya , from the southern municipality of the state, Parral went to the La Boquilla dam to stay overnight with the farmers and defend the largest reservoir in the state.

Lozoya said. the fight is fair, not only to defend the water of our producer brothers, but also because of the unfortunate events that occurred on Tuesday night in Delicias.

Until this time, the region's media also reported difficulties in making live broadcasts and getting a signal from some sites of the dam, for which they accused that possibly the connectivity of the area was strategically suspended, since in days In the past this problem had not occurred.