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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dnica Coto

Efforts to restructure Puerto Rico power company debt wobble

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Puerto Rico’s power company appears destined for an even longer bankruptcy than expected after several creditors rejected a new debt restructuring plan filed late Friday following years of failed negotiations.

A federal control board that oversees the island’s finances filed a plan that proposes to cut by nearly half the more than $10 billion of debt held by Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority, the largest of any local government agency.

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