ARMED FEDERAL AGENTS ENTER WAREHOUSE IN PUERTO RICO TO SEIZE HOARDED ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT
without the parts, the linemen were unable to fix things. So who was hiding the parts, who paid for them, and who benefits from this?
sounds familiar. We saw this after the typhoons, when relief supplies were put in the wrong places and didn't get to where they were needed. Of course, here some of it went missing because politicians diverted funds, food, and construction material to sell for private profit on the side, and others hoarded/hid needed supplies so they could release them in photo ops before the elections.
Or maybe it's just Mismanagement. On a huge scale. By a local utility. Who just didn't know what was stored there, where it was stored, or what the equipment was supposed to be used for.
as the saying goes: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
Mismanagement is not a new phenomenon for PREPA, which for decades has been Puerto Rico’s sole power provider. For most of that time, it had been self-regulated, with a board comprised largely of political appointees with little to no background in the electricity sector. The lack of oversight created conditions for corruption and disinvestment, with its generation and transmission capacity falling into severe disrepair over many years.
lots of questionable stuff going on.
How bad is it? well, some mayors used local funding and local talent to fix their electric grid. So there are competent people trying to fix things.
headsup Instapundit.
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