A massive blackout left all of mainland Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay without power on Sunday.<br />An unexplained failure in the countries' electrical interconnection system left more than 48 million people without power.<br /><br />"The subways aren't even working. You can't even recharge your transit card to ride the bus, and you can't get around if you don't have a car."<br /><br />"We were just with my grandmother, and we had to help her down the stairs because the elevator wasn't working. Everything is closed and there's no movement in the street."<br /><br />Power was restored to more than half of the region in Argentina by the afternoon and to most regions in Uruguay.<br />Argentinian President Mauricio Macri ordered a thorough investigation on what had caused the blackout and who was responsible for it.<br />
