MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Massive blackout hits Mercosur; Argentina and Uruguay in the dark for six hours; major investigation promised
A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and parts of Chile and southern Brazil on Sunday. The Argentine president called it an “unprecedented” failure in the countries' interconnected power grid.
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