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Workers prepare popsicles at an artisanal factory in Salcedo, Ecuador, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, amid a wave of power outages, triggered by a prolonged dry spell. Pumasunta, who runs the small company with his two brothers, said that if the power outages continue this month, they will have no choice but to shut down the plant.Pumasunta said that power outages have halted production and storage, causing much of his product to melt.
Soria’s own ice-cream plant, housed in a shed behind his house, now sits empty. He said he stopped production three weeks ago and has been forced to sell some equipment, as well as a plot of land to cover his debts. The Ecuadorian government has bought and rented dozens of large electric generators that run on fossil fuels and are expected to arrive in the following weeks. But as Marco Acuña, the president of Ecuador's national guild of engineers, notes:"They do not have the capacity to make up for the current deficit.”