What happened in Lanzarote in the last moment of the year could not have been more graphic to exemplify the apathy and absolute inefficiency that is suffered in one of the most basic services for citizens. We are ...
What happened in Lanzarote in the last moment of the year could not have been more graphic to exemplify the apathy and absolute inefficiency that is suffered in one of the most basic services for citizens. We are referring to the blackout suffered by countless residents of the Island just at the moment when they were eating grapes following the jingle that came through television.
The scene seemed taken from some of the television parodies that proliferate so much during these endearing holidays. The bad thing is that here things were serious, it had nothing to do with the Day of the Holy Innocents or with one of the usual jokes of the comedians on duty.
The company Unelco, which you know that since the local authorities got somewhat serious has stopped blaming the excavators for all the interruptions in the supply, has not given any explanation to the disaster.
There were many places where the light went out just at the moment when its most optimistic neighbors were trying to eat the twelve grapes. To be more precise, the event happened between the third and fourth grape. Although most of the population did not find out about the event, the fact that it affected the entire municipality of Teguise (Tahíche, Costa Teguise, Famara...) is more than enough to be publicly denounced. And not because someone could have choked on the grapes, someone could have had a strong stumble with the scare, but because it has been the straw that has filled a glass that was full a long time ago, one more joke from a company whose president, Manuel Pizarro, came to say little more than in the Canary Islands they were doing us a favor by subsidizing electricity because nobody else wanted to come and give us the service.
Many readers have contacted this editorial office to express their complaint about what happened. Most, by the way, quite indignant. And curiously, considering that one of the most affected areas was Costa Teguise, some of these outraged readers are not from Lanzarote, they are tourists who do not understand how something like this could have happened at a time that is very important for many.
Unelco has managed to end the year as it began the previous one, offering an absolutely deficient service on which our politicians have to continue working, to prevent the issue from being left for later and later.
If the passage of the Delta had something positive, it was that in Tenerife they discovered something that happens in islands like Lanzarote and Fuerteventura throughout the year. Now it seems that the regional Executive is going to take action on the matter. The sooner you do it, the better for everyone, although in the all-powerful Unelco-Endesa they still believe that they are doing us a favor by providing us with a service that is not exactly free.
