Power largely back after outage hit Honduras

Power was largely back in Honduras early Saturday afternoon, after a blackout struck the country earlier, Ministry of Energy Erick Tejada said.

The national power disruption affected Honduras with a total blackout in the control area of the country, the Central American electricity earket supervisor EOR said.

"90% of the energy demand throughout the country is already powered up," Tejada said on X, adding that information is still being gathered to find the origin of the failure.

While the Honduran national electric power company had said earlier that a regional power failure had affected several areas in Latin America, EOR pointed out that the blackout was originated in Honduras.