Jonathan Wheatley-The Washington Post, 11/12/09
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday ordered an investigation into why more than half the country, including the major cities and industrial center, lost electricity for several hours Tuesday night.
All of neighboring Paraguay also lost power, but only for about 15 minutes.
The blackout, which the Brazilian energy ministry said affected 18 of the country’s 26 states and brought chaos to Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia, the capital, raises doubts about the reliability of the country’s infrastructure a little more than a month after Rio de Janeiro was chosen to host the 2016 Olympic Games.
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