Colombia in the dark about blackout

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A nationwide blackout hit Colombia on Thursday, with authorities struggling to determine the cause of the electrical grid’s collapse.

President Alvaro Uribe told journalists in the southern city of Cali that authorities would “know in a few minutes” the cause of the blackout, which took place at about 10:15 a.m. local time.


He said the blackout “appears to have affected the entire country.”

Luis Alarcon, manager of state-controlled electricity distributor ISA, told Caracol Radio that the power outage appears to have begun with an undetermined technical glitch at a substation in Bogota and quickly spread to the rest of the country.

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