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Venezuela Says Widespread Power Outage Caused by Electromagnetic Attack

  • Government says outage caused by attack on electric grid
  • Incident affected some oil projects in eastern Venezuela
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Venezuela in the Dark (again)
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The lights are returning for millions in Venezuela after a major power failure knocked out electricity to about two-thirds of the country on Monday afternoon.

The incident, which the government said was caused by an “attack,” was reminiscent of another failure in March which dragged on for as long as 10 days in some areas and prompted Nicolas Maduro’s administration to begin power rationing outside of the capital city Caracas to normalize the grid.