Quito [Ecuador], June 20 (ANI): Ecuador faced a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon and the country’s Public Infrastructure Minister, Roberto Luque, blamed the “failure in the transmission line” for the emergency, The New York Times reported. In a statement posted on X, Roberto Luque said he had received a report from the national electricity operator, CENACE, about “a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there is no energy service nationwide.” Luque said the authorities were working to resolve the outage “as quickly as possible.” Within hours, power …