Tizimin, Yucatan — Residents of the Adolfo Lopez Mateos neighborhood blocked the main road to Valladolid late Thursday night to protest power outages that they say have plagued their homes for more than three weeks.
Around midnight, dozens of families closed off Calle 48 at 83, placing stones and other objects to stop traffic. The protest came after repeated failures in electricity service that residents say began with a short circuit in the neighborhood’s wiring.
According to residents, the power goes out around 11 p.m. and is not restored for up to 15 hours. When CFE (Federal Electricity Commission) crews reconnect the service, it fails again the same night.
Residents said they have filed multiple phone reports and submitted a signed petition to CFE’s local office in Tizimin. Officials told them the problem is a faulty transformer, but no replacement is available.
“They just say it’s the transformer and they don’t have another one to change it, so the problem continues even if they reconnect it,” one resident said.
The blackouts have caused thousands of pesos in losses, residents said, with televisions, refrigerators, and air conditioners damaged by voltage fluctuations.
Municipal police officers arrived at the scene and placed cones and patrol cars to make the blockade visible and prevent accidents.
After about three hours, the protesters agreed to disperse, saying they would monitor whether CFE personnel who responded to the report can provide a permanent solution.
