According to Uribe, the shortage of products and the lack of gas there also affects the level of services offered to tourists.

In statements to the digital portal Primicias, the official revealed that Galapagos island merchants have stopped receiving more than 40% of the goods they purchased monthly due to the lack of planning on the part of the state company Petroecuador, the Ministry of Transportation and the Government Council in handling the crisis.

Galapagos has gone back 100 years, Uribe warned, while he expressed his concern about the lack of response from national authorities and called for urgent measures to be taken.

On March 26, the ship Isla de la Plata, one of the two ships that supplied the islands twice a month, suffered a breakdown, which caused shortages and an increase in the price of products such as eggs, rice, onions, potatoes, grains and certain fruits.

At present, food and other supplies for this region arrive only by means of a vessel called Fusion, which has a capacity of 3,500 tons. However, the needs of the archipelago are 9,000 tons of products.

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