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Over 50 indigenous residents in the communities in Tabasco, a Mexican state, have threatened that they would bring death to the employees and staff of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) who would try to disconnect their power for not paying their bills.

Most of the customers who are displeased and dissatisfied are from the municipality of Centro. They stated that the rates they are required to pay have increased too much and therefore have announced that they belong to the "civil resistance" versus the company that is state-run.

Nicolás Sánchez, a spokesman for the movement of the civil resistance, announced a press conference that he and his people are willing and prepared to pay but he wants it to be fair.

Sánchez also stated that their opposition is established and founded on not paying and that they will not let any workers from the CFE to disconnect their power in their communities. He added that they will also not allow any of the workers to have a chance to view and take the reading of the meters and that chased out of town.

He said that the residents are requesting that the CFE should charge them a single preferential rate the entire year. The customers of CFE in Tabasco pay a cheaper and more inexpensive rate at the moment in the summer season compared to winter. This has led several customers to protest and grumble that they won't be able to afford the higher bills they are will be charged when the winter season comes.

Adán Augusto López Hernández, the Governor of Tabasco who is a politician associated with Morena, a National Regeneration Movement held in Mexico, responded by pointing out the rates they have charged in Tabasco are not high but the most expensive in the entire country.

The customers of CFE have years of experience of resisting to pay their electricity bills in the Gulf coast state, the location where President López Obrador has launched a movement for civil resistance in the year 1995 to rally versus the controversially accused fraud in the gubernatorial election in 1994, an event where he lost to Roberto Madrazo, a politician from Mexico who was part of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Over 500,000 electricity customers have accumulated a total debt of 11 billion pesos in bills that are unpaid over the following 25 years. However, the CFE has granted to eliminate the total amount in the middle of the year 2019, but several customers still have decided not to pay their electric bills after the slate was erased on June 1.

The director of the distribution division of the state company, Guillermo Nevárez, announced that the situation had improved this month as nearly 60 percent of the electricity customers in Tabasco are now paying their bills right and on time. In a piece of recent news, Guillermo told in a press conference that the Federal Electricity Commission had late customer debt of a total of 55 billion pesos or 2.9 billion U.S. dollars at the end of 2019.