Most residents had power restored by midnight but the situation remained unstable. President Gabriel Boric blamed power companies for not acting faster.

Chilean authorities said they restored power to most homes on Wednesday, hours after a massive, rare blackout caused transport chaos in the capital and forced the president to declare a state of emergency and curfew across much of the country.

Chilean Leader Gabriel Boric along with German Leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier negotiated about the conflict in Ukraine, worldwide trade

Citizens in Chile are getting back to normal after a nationwide power outage affected millions of people and a "state of emergency" gets lifted as officials point fingers at energy providers.

The massive, rare outage struck on Tuesday afternoon, leaving millions without power, and causing transport chaos in the capital Santiago. President Gabriel Boric blamed the grid operators for the ...

SANTIAGO — Chilean authorities said they restored power to most homes on Wednesday, hours after a massive, rare blackout caused transport chaos in the capital and forced the nation's president to declare a state of emergency and a curfew across much of the country.

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Electricity providers across Chile scrambled to restore service Tuesday after a sweeping blackout plunged 90% of the country into darkness, stranding commuters, knocking cell service offline and paralyzing businesses and daily life.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Power was restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people Wednesday after the country's most disruptive blackout in 15 years, the government said, as authorities lifted a strict curfew imposed when the outage left 98% of the population without electricity.

The widespread blackout was caused by a transmission line failure in the country’s north. Read more at straitstimes.com.

STORY: A massive power outage left Chile’s capital, Santiago in darkness on Tuesday.Chile’s government announced a state of emergency and a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the regions from Arica in the north to Los Lagos in the south.