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CARACAS, Venezuela — A power outage left at least 40 percent of Venezuela without electricity on Tuesday, including much of the capital.
Between 40 percent and 50 percent of Venezuela’s territory was affected by the late-afternoon outage, said Gen. Hip olito Izquierdo, president of the national electric corporation.
Power returned to downtown Caracas after about an hour and a half. It was unclear how soon power would be re- established in other areas.
The outage was caused by a failure of the transmission system near the Guri hydroelectric dam, officials said. It set off a chain reaction during peak power consumption hours on a hot day.
