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

Chile's President Gabriel Boric, from left, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Uruguay's President-elect Yamandu Orsi, pose for a photo outside the Brazilian Embassy a day ahead of

Chile's worst blackout in well over a decade struck on Tuesday afternoon, leaving millions without power. President Gabriel Boric blamed private companies that manage the grid for the system's failure.

CNN en Español El apagón masivo que comenzó la tarde de este martes en la mayor parte de Chile afectó a unos 8 millones de hogares, dijo el presidente Gabriel Boric, en un mensaje a la nación. De ese

Chile's President Gabriel Boric, from left, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Uruguay's President-elect Yamandu Orsi, pose for a photo outside the Brazilian Embassy a day ahead of

President Gabriel Boric’s popularity was unscathed by Chile’s biggest blackout in over a decade, as the nation works to find those responsible for a rare failure that left most of the population in the dark and halted the world’s largest copper mines.

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.

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

Chile was the most capitalist country in Latin America and had prospered as a result. But since the election of socialist Gabriel Boric in 2021, all that has changed, says Rainer Zitelmann My trip around the world took me to Chile twice,

Electricity providers across Chile scrambled to restore service ... half of the 8 million affected households, said President Gabriel Boric. “What happened today is outrageous,” Boric said ...

In Chile, a nationwide blackout plunged the country into total darkness Tuesday evening and sent electricity providers into a frantic scramble to restore power. John Bartlett reports.

Chile on Tuesday declared a state of emergency ... In an address to the nation Tuesday evening, President Gabriel Boric said he was activating "a state of emergency due to a catastrophe" to ...