Bogota, Colombia – An Entire Country Hit with Massive Blackout.

Bogota, Colombia — Colombia was hit by an energy blackout on Thursday that disrupted business, trapped people in elevators and darkened traffic signals, causing chaos on urban streets, officials said.

Authorities said the blackout was caused by a failure at an electricity substation. They planned to have the grid repaired later in the day and discounted an attack by left-wing rebels who have bombed oil pipelines and power installations.

Mobile telephones went dead and Colombia’s stock market suspended trading for about 90 minutes due to the blackout.

“It appears to have affected all of the country,” President Alvaro Uribe told local radio [Reuters]