The Association of Committees of Housewives of the National District and the Santo Domingo Province (Acadisando) solicitous the Government to declare the country’s electricity sector in state of emergency.
The organization indicated that it is the second time that a blackout of that magnitude has occurred in a few months and that the situation affected more than four million of people residing in the Greater Santo Domingo.
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Barbina Herrera, president of Acadisando, said that they have information that the homes where beauty salons, barber shops, ice cream parlors, grocery stores and schools and colleges in the National District and the Santo Domingo province operate have had to take preventive measures to avoid losing their merchandise and in educational centers the virtual classrooms and the internet collapsed.
Herrera reported who during and after the blackout received dozens of complaints of the housewives who own business in their homes, after the long period of blackouts in their neighborhoods.
He expressed that the organization he directs never thought that the blackout that occurred on November 11, 2025 would be repeated, since the president Luis Abinader He informed the country that this situation would not be repeated again, however it happened again.
Other organizations support
The call of the housewives is joined by the Coordinator of Don Bosco Neighborhood Organizations (Codonbosco), the Network of Community Organizations February 27 (Reocofe), the Education Center for Peace, Tolerance and Development (Cepatode), and the Alexis Rafael Peña Alternative Conflict Resolution Institute (Ircarp).
Additionally, the Community Development Committee Mary Help of ChristiansVilla María Community Development Front, Social Improvement Development Committee and the Villa Fontana Community Front, among others.
The women managers of Acadisando, Altagracia BrandFiordaliza Guzmán, Felicita Dishtmey, Santa Ureña and Dolores Céspedes stated that all public services were affected both in the November blackout like what happened last Monday in the country.
