A power blackout has hit all of Puerto Rico as the heavily Catholic U.S. territory prepares to celebrate the Easter weekend.

A power blackout hit all of Puerto Rico ... of neighboring Vieques, said Josué Colón, the island’s so-called energy czar and former executive director of Puerto Rico’s Electric Power ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto ... Puerto Rico was moving slowly to protect equipment, emergency generation stations restored power to the tiny neighboring island of Culebra and parts of neighboring Vieques ...