For a time today, power was out in nearly the entire nations of Argentina and Uruguay as well as southern sections of Paraguay. That's an outage affecting about 40 million people. The blackout was blamed on the failure of a section of the grid in Argentina which cascaded into a much bigger area going down. There are protective measures which should have stopped the original blackout from getting larger, but they didn't work. It's unclear if they are not installed in Argentina or if they just didn't work. The electrical system in Argentina is in a state of disrepair as a result of the government deciding that power costs would be kept extremely low for all Argentines. As a result, there were no funds to upgrade or even to properly maintain the power grid. It's another mess made by the imposition of Socialism into the Argentine economy. People got low cost power for a while, but now they have unreliable power which could easily cripple the nation's economy in the years to come.
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