This year they meet five Christmases without light in the Cañada Real of Madrid. A historic settlement where eight thousand people live, many of them children.
The electric company cut supply in 2020argued the excessive consumption of marijuana plantations, and despite the condemnation of many institutions for the violations of human rights, the neighborhood has continued to suffer from the same problem for exactly five years.
For her part, Sara, a neighbor of Cañada Real with two daughters, assures that the situation “it’s maddening because it’s very cold” and the house “looks like a refrigerator.” “My daughters have gotten used to it, the day they were born there was no electricity,” she adds.
The only energy they receive is from a solar panel: “It is what saves us to be able to see at night and have food in the refrigerator,” he emphasizes. The Community of Madrid values, for now, only one option, the eviction of sector 6the most affected.
The commissioner for the Cañada Real, Ignacio Sánchez, maintains that “It’s the only way to guarantee access to supplies and public services.” On the other hand, the spokesperson for the Luz para la Cañada Civic Platform says that even “a baby died from hypothermia” and that many people have “health problems”: “Everyone They are guilty.”
Juan Ramón, an 88-year-old neighbor who does not have hot water in his house, expresses that “neither the PP nor the PSOE” care about what is happening. “They have to worry about those of us who live here, we are people“he adds.
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