00:00On the Caribbean coast, grandmothers and mothers scare children with the story of the bogeyman.
00:04Here comes the bogeyman, to make them go to sleep or to make them listen.
00:07Now it seems we have a new bogeyman and it's called Blackout.
00:11XM is the operator of the Colombian electrical system.
00:14In less than three years, he has issued eight warnings about possible rationing.
00:19And while they try to scare us by saying we're going to be left in the dark,
00:22There are questions that no one can continue to avoid.
00:25Why aren't thermal power plants generating the energy they should?
00:28What happens to the billions that we Colombians have paid for the reliability charge?
00:33Why do users, especially those on the coast, end up paying more for their bills?
00:38That's what I write about in my new vallenato letter in El Espectador.
00:41I titled it The Blackout Boogeyman.
00:44It's a column to look at the data, question the alarms, and ask ourselves questions.
00:48Are they warning us about a blackout or preparing us to pay a more expensive bill?
00:54I invite you to read my vallenato letter in El Espectador.
00:57And don't worry, we stopped being afraid of the boogeyman on the coast a long time ago.
