The lights were back on across virtually all of Argentina and neighbors Paraguay...
A lamppost shines down a street as the rest of the neighbourhood Parque Batlle goes without electricity, although power has mostly been restored after a massive blackout in Argentina cut electricity to much of neighbouring Uruguay and swaths of Paraguay, in Montevideo, Uruguay June 16, 2019. REUTERS/Mariana Greif
Argentina’s grid collapsed early on Sunday morning, cutting power to tens of millions of people in South America, hobbling phone and internet communication regionwide and shutting down YPF SA’s La Plata refinery, Argentina’s largest. But the precise catalyst for the chain reaction that eventually blacked out much of the southern half of South American is still unclear, according to Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui.
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