They were going after the databases of users who complained about the high rates of Delsur, the company that bought EPM 13 years ago and is managed by Carolina Quintero.
In addition to its wide variety of operations in Colombia, where they are a benchmark in the energy sector with up to 37 hydroelectric plants and a recently inaugurated solar farm, Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) also makes millions with various businesses abroad, especially in Central America with subsidiaries in Panama, Guatemala and Bukele’s El Salvador.
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In this last country, which is today governed by Nayib Bukele, the company of the Mayor’s Office of Medellín took over the services of the Distribuidora de Electricidad del Sur (Delsur). This was in 2011 and since then they have managed to grow to the point of providing energy to more than 400 thousand people.
However, this is what happens here in Colombia, particularly on the Coast where citizens complain about the high costs of energy rates, in El Salvador they are also presenting the same problem, which has become one of the priorities of the newly re-elected president. In that order of ideas, during the last few days, through his X account, he reported that there were companies that made excessive charges that could not be technically justified and among those was included Delur, whose operation corresponds to EPM.
Currently and since 2020, this company has as president the public accountant Carolina Quintero Gil, who has extensive experience in the Paisa company that today has John Maya as manager. Quintero has held different management positions, mainly in the Coffee Region where she was Administrative and Financial Deputy Manager and General Manager of the Quindío Energy Company (EDEQ). In addition, she was Financial Director of Business and Investments at EPM global. Delsur is her first experience abroad.
She had to deal with a raid carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office of El Salvador at the Delsur offices to confirm with the databases that the billing was correct a few hours after Bukele’s complaint, a matter that reached the central offices in Medellín , from where they already announced collaboration with the Salvadoran justice system.
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