I'm sure the solar proton storm that hit right as Chile was sun facing had nothing to do with it. /s

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=25&month=02&...

FYI - The 3rd worlds power grid, mostly near the equator isn't as resilient to solar storms as the U.S. and other nations in the Northern Hemisphere who've had to harden there grids against such things due to repeated solar incidents. Often because they have no redundancy when a line surges.