In a post on X, Ecuador's Minister of Public Works, Roberto Luque, revealed that the nationwide power blackout, which plunged the country into darkness, was due to a failure in the transmission line.

On Wednesday afternoon, a national power outage occurred in Ecuador, leaving 17 million people without electricity. Authorities are attempting to fix the malfunctioning transmission line that caused the outage.

"The immediate report that we received from the CENACE (National Center of Ene...