Bad Bunny protests against power outages in Puerto Rico in his new video “El Apagón”

The famous singer Bad Bunny joined the protests against the company LUMA Energy after constant electrical blackouts in Puerto Rico, in the premiere of its most recent music video “El Apagón”.

For almost 23 minutes, the singer mixed his song with testimonies from the community that explain the complicated situation experienced in homes, schools and hospitals when long blackouts occur.

The Puerto Rican people have protested on different occasions, to the point of confronting the police. A group of legislators from the House of Representatives They have already made calls to take to the streets to put pressure on Governor Pedro Pierluisi and to cancel the contract awarded to LUMA Energy.

In the video “El Apagón”, members of the community claim that billionaires have used the island to make large investments, demolishing schools and other establishments to build private property.

More than 7,000 comments were posted on Youtube in the first few hours, many of them thanking the singer for raising his voice.

“I am Puerto Rican, I live this every day, they are taking everything from us, we ourselves think that in a few years we will not be able to survive here. We, the middle class, have to pay all the tastes to the rich and gringos. Bad Bunny will give you I have supported and will continue to do so, thanks for speaking up with us,” one comment read.

Additionally, as part of the video, the President of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández, spoke about private construction on public land, assuring that the issue is “complicated” and that development is not going to stop.

This, because many Puerto Ricans protest The Law of Individual Investors (Law 22) seeks to attract new residents to Puerto Rico who offer to replace infrastructure with new local investments in real estate, services, consumer products, and capital injections into the Puerto Rico banking sector.

Law 22 allows new residents to enjoy a 100% tax exemption from Puerto Rico income taxes on all dividend and interest income.

At the end of the video, they left a list of authorities who did not respond to an interview request for these reports, including the Governor of Puerto Rico Pedro Pierluisi, Brian Tenenbaum, an investor and owner of the land of a school, Brock Pierce, a beneficiary of Law 22, among others.

Amid calls for the cancellation of the luma contractthe chief executive officer of Quanta Services, Duke Austin, offered a press conference in which he assured that the consortium will make significant changes to end the blackouts.