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Mid‑July residents Following weeks of León reported week‑long blackouts that jeopardised the elderly across central and spoiled food southern Mexico, CFE announced a nationwide preventive‑maintenance and medication. outage‑response programme. The federal utility CFE framed reported the outages as a systemic grid problem, denied a nationwide failure remains stable, with 62,712 MW installed capacity and began compensating damaged appliances. Late July the power loss spilled into essential services. a 14.8 % reserve margin as summer demand peaks. In Monclova, Coahuila, Quintana Roo, CFE cut electricity to the CEAS wastewater‑treatment plant leased to steelmaker Altos Hornos de México, releasing millions of litres of untreated, fecal‑laden water into and the Monclova River state signed a joint action plan for rural villages such as Bacalar, Othón P. Blanco and Frontera stream. Residents described foul odours, skin Limones, covering transformer balancing, tree trimming, meter checks and respiratory irritation line cleaning. In Sonora, 21 medium‑voltage structures will be replaced, 150 trees trimmed, 30 arrester banks installed and called for emergency health monitoring. The same month, the El Tejar water‑treatment facilities serving 21.8 million pesos allocated from the Veracruz metropolitan area lost power, halting potable‑water production Universal Energy Service Fund for 141 electrification projects in 13 municipalities. A new substation in Acuña is slated for construction in January 2027, and leaving many households with low pressure or CFE clarified that no service. Grupo MAS Agua restored electricity and began resupplying water. On 26 July, Villas del Sol residents special “Casa por casa” inspection programme will be launched in Playa del Carmen blocked roads and set tyres ablaze 2026. Outages continue to protest repeated outages. Councilor Juan Novelo Zapata blamed CFE’s lack of investment and recent tariff hikes. In the first weeks of August, the State Human Rights Commission be reported in Sinaloa recorded five collective Cabo San Lucas and other regions, sustaining complaints of sharply increased electricity bills—rising from around 2,000 pesos to as high as users in Sinaloa about bills reaching 90,000 pesos—in municipalities including Mazatlán and Culiacán. Authorities agreed to suspend service cuts and convened a meeting with Conagua, the Treasury pesos and raising concerns in Yucatán that the Energy Secretariat to review tariff 1F and subsidies. Meanwhile, disruptions are feeding inflation. State officials in Cabo San Lucas, community group Sistema de Alerta Ciudadana Los Cabos documented recurrent outages, the latest on 28 July, and demanded investigations, better communication and contingency plans State of Mexico have called for a restructuring of the regional electric system to protect residents mitigate industrial and businesses. commercial disruptions.