The World - News from May 21, 1986
Bombs destroyed three electricity towers, blacking out much of Chile, after government troops in the capital of Santiago prevented a planned protest march, routing demonstrators with water cannon and tear gas. The blackout affected a 1,450-mile zone of the nation’s central sector and was total in Santiago, Vina del Mar and Concepcion, where more than half the country’s people live. A Marxist guerrilla group, the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, claimed responsibility.
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