ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

Chile’s government has enacted a state of emergency after a huge power outage left millions in the South American country without electricity and plunged the capital Santiago into darkness.

SANTIAGO - A large power outage struck vast swaths of Chile on Tuesday, interrupting mining operations in the world's biggest copper producer and leaving residents of Santiago without electricity.

SANTIAGO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Chile's power grid and major copper mines slowly came back online on Wednesday morning after a major outage hit the world's top producer of the red metal, with power ...

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 ...

By Yan Zhuang and John Bartlett John Bartlett reported from Santiago. Chile’s government imposed a curfew on Tuesday and sent the army and national police officers to patrol the streets in ...

Chile’s president has declared a state of emergency after an electricity blackout plunged most of the country into darkness on Tuesday, including the capital Santiago. The outage – in the ...

A massive power outage in Chile has hit copper production in the world’s biggest exporter as it plunged the capital city of Santiago into darkness, prompting the declaration of a state of emergency.

A massive power outage in Chile left 19 million people without electricity on Tuesday. The blackout affected the northern Arica and Parinacota regions to the southern Los Lagos region, according ...

SANTIAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A massive power outage across Chile plunged the country's capital Santiago into darkness on Tuesday and knocked out electricity to major copper mines in the country's ...