Massive Power Outage Hits Argentina, Uruguay, Say Power Firms

A massive outage blacked out Argentina and Uruguay Sunday, leaving both South American countries without electricity, power companies said. Uruguay’s system went down at 7:06 am, according to the Uruguayan power company UTE, which attributed the outage to “a fault in the Argentine network.” “A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left all Argentina and Uruguay without power,” Edesur Argentina said on Twitter.

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