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Natural gas shortage triggers major power outage; nearly 5 million affected Cold weather in US halts movement of gas to Mexico
Published on Monday, February 15, 2021
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Almost 5 million people in northern Mexico were affected by a major power outage on Monday morning due to an interruption in the natural gas supply caused by cold weather.
President López Obrador said the blackout affected about 400,000 people in parts of Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Chihuahua, including Saltillo, Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua city, Cuauhtémoc and Delicias.
However, Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) distribution director Guillermo Nevárez Elizondo later said 4.7 million people were affected by the outages in the north of the country.