Tag: blackout

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Huge blackout affects Buenos Aires City for several hours

  

  A huge power cut in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires caused a blackout to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Tuesday and brought metro lines to a standstill. The blackout also occurred when the country's medicine and pharmaceutical regulator extended an emergency authorization to the Pfizer BioTechN vaccine.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Four days blackout in Brazilian Amapa state: full service restoration in ten days

  

  A fire at an electricity substation has caused four days of blackouts in most of northern Brazil’s Amapa state, disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Maduro blames “desperate” US for the latest blackout that plunged most of Venezuela in the dark

  

  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday blamed the “desperate” United States for a major power cut that affected large parts of the crisis-wracked country on Monday.

• Wednesday, July 24th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  “Electromagnetic attack” behind massive power cut, Venezuelan minister explains

  

  Venezuela's Communication and Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez Tuesday revealed that according to preliminary inquiries, the probable cause of the massive blackout on Monday, which hit most parts of Venezuela, including the capital Caracas, was “an electromagnetic attack.”

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Caracas and other regions of Venezuela hit by a massive power blackout

  

  Caracas and other parts of crisis-wracked Venezuela were hit by a massive power cut on Monday foreign journalists and internet users said. The lights went out in most of Caracas at 4.41pm (2041 GMT) while people in other parts of the country took to social media to report the power had gone out there too.

• Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 12:51 UTC

  Power cuts in Cuba not due to shortage of oil, minister says

  

  The Cuban government Wednesday explained the repeated blackouts in the country but are due to breakdowns in the electricity-producing machinery and not because of a shortage of oil that can be attributed to sanctions by the United States.

• Monday, July 15th 2019 - 03:43 UTC

  Power cut hits NYC for almost four hours

  

  Less than a month after a similar episode although at a larger scale happened in almost the entire southern cone, a power cut hit New York for about four hours Saturday, affecting some 72,000 customers, in the city's western area and landmarks such as Times Square, causing havoc and unrest when metro lines and theatres came to a standstill.

• Friday, June 7th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Maduro names new electricity minister as sporadic blackouts continue

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro named a new electricity minister on Thursday, replacing one he appointed just two months ago amid persistent prolonged power blackouts.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Developers rush to supply electricity to Brazilian state that depends on Venezuelan power

  

  Developers have presented more than 150 proposals for power plants ahead of an auction this month to supply electricity to the Brazilian state of Roraima, which has struggled with a rash of blackouts due to reliance on the shaky Venezuelan power grid.

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Venezuela collapses: no power, water or internet; Schools suspended, workday limited to 02:00 PM

  

  Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced 30 days of electricity rationing on Sunday, after his government said it was reducing the length of the workday and keeping schools closed due to devastating blackouts plaguing the country.