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Argentina Isn’t Ruling Out a Cyberattack in Major Power Outage
Argentina, South America’s second-largest economy, dip by 2.5% last year, worst since 2014 when the nation defaulted on its debt.
18 Jun 2019, 02:09 AM IST 
Electrical power lines hang from a transmission pylon in Pretoria, South Africa. (Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg) -- A huge power failure cut off electricity in all of Argentina and Uruguay on Sunday morning, according to media reports and a regional utility.
Parts of Brazil and Paraguay also were affected, the BBC reported.
A “massive failure in the electrical interconnection system” has left “all of Argentina and Uruguay without power,” Edesur Argentina, a power company serving more than 2.5 million customers, said on Twitter.
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