{"id":292074,"date":"2019-09-17T06:16:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292074"},"modified":"2019-09-17T06:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:16:17","slug":"blackout-hits-4-nations-in-central-america-affects-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/blackout-hits-4-nations-in-central-america-affects-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout hits 4 nations in Central America, affects millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A failure in Central America\u2019s electrical grid left millions of people without power for hours in at least four countries on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Honduras was the country hardest hit, with the entirety of its territory and its more than 9 million inhabitants affected. Traffic snarled as more than 600 stoplights went dark in the capital, Tegucigalpa.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo Deras of Honduras\u2019 state electric company said at a news conference that the problem arose from an overload at a substation on the Caribbean coast.<\/p>\n<p>Salvador Mansell, president of Nicaragua\u2019s state power transmission company, Enatrel, said the blackout hit his country\u2019s capital, Managua, and its main departments, or provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A failure in Central America\u2019s electrical grid left millions of people without power for hours in at least four countries on Monday. Honduras was the country hardest hit, with the entirety of its territory and its more than 9 million inhabitants affected. Traffic snarled as more than 600 stoplights went dark in the capital, Tegucigalpa. Leonardo Deras of Honduras\u2019 state electric company said at a news conference that the problem arose from an overload at a substation on the Caribbean coast. Salvador Mansell, president of Nicaragua\u2019s state power transmission company, Enatrel, said the blackout hit his country\u2019s capital, Managua, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}