The blackout hit Puerto Rico as the largely Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend ...

Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered power grid has suffered compounding crises including hurricanes and financial problems.

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the largely Catholic ... "This sequence of failures triggered a chain of events that resulted in an island-wide outage." ...

Over half of Puerto Rico had their electricity restored by Thursday ... "This sequence of failures triggered a chain of events that resulted in an island-wide outage," LUMA said in the statement.