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2026-08-18 · Economy and politics

Experts: New Fortress is wobbling and the government has no plan B

On August 18, 2026, La Perla del Sur publishes — according to the snippet and the date on that URL — that New Fortress is wobbling and that Puerto Rico still has no plan B, experts warn. Cloudflare blocked the page fetch. The body is not filled in. The listed facts remain, and other notes in this roundup are named by date and outlet.

Rolando Emmanuelli Jiménez, in that snippet, says creditors can accelerate debt. NFE admitted in writing that the pact could fail. Genera and NFEnergía are not protected by Chapter 15. The dek asks the Executive to disclose, before September 15, how it guarantees fuel and generation if the restructuring fails. Those three statements and that deadline date are what is confirmed.

On August 20, NotiCel covers the PIP filing to cancel Genera's contract and investigate AES. Denis Márquez Lebrón, in that note, ties Genera to the New Fortress bankruptcy. Adrián González Costa puts $655.4 million of the AES project not covered by possible Department of Energy money. That is another date and another genre: measures in the Capitol, not La Perla's warning. They are named separately.

Chapter 15, in this row's facts, is the one that does not cover Genera or NFEnergía. The insolvency procedure is not explained, and no court or accelerable-debt amount is invented. Rolando Emmanuelli Jiménez speaks of accelerating; NFE admits the pact could fail. The government, according to the outlet's headline, has no plan B. The dek puts September 15 as the date the experts want that disclosure.

On August 26, El Nuevo Día covers Genera's operating budget. On July 20 and July 31 it covered the reserve units. None of those pieces replaces La Perla of the 18th. Here the object is New Fortress, NFE's writing, Chapter 15, and the absence of a plan B the outlet attributes to the government. The reader has the URL, even if the site's door closed with Cloudflare.

Source: La Perla del Sur. https://www.periodicolaperla.com/actualidad/new-fortress-se-tambalea-y-puerto-rico-sigue-sin-plan-b-advierten-expertos/