Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Restaurants are going dark in Puerto Vallarta to protest increase in electricity rates

In Jalisco, 40,000 restaurants are switching off the lights and using candles in a protest of an increase of more than 60% in electricity rates.

The establishments will not stop providing services and will be "romantic" to make evident the dissatisfaction of the industry by the increases reflected in their bills since January, informed the State President of the National Chamber of the Food and Spirits Industry (Canirac), Sergio Jaime Santos.

Canirac called this national movement as a measure of pressure to lower electricity rates. The blackout will be made in tourist destinations such as Puerto Vallarta, where the . . .

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