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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s president suggested Friday that bad weather might not have caused a massive blackout that left nearly a third of the population without electricity, saying he will wait for an investigation to conclude how the outage happened.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva backed off earlier claims by his energy minister that strong storms, wind and lightning caused a failure in transmission lines — after the government’s own satellite imagery showed that lightning strikes were neither close enough nor strong enough to cause such damage.
