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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nayara Batschke and Matias Basualdo

Electricity returns to most of Chile after a sweeping blackout, but questions remain

APTOPIX Chile Power Outage - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Power was restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people Wednesday after the country's most disruptive blackout in 15 years, the government said, as authorities lifted a strict curfew imposed when the outage left 98% of the population without electricity.

Chilean Interior Minister Carolina Tohá said electricity had largely returned to Chile's 14 afflicted regions, although 220,000 residents remained without power on Wednesday.

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