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BRASILIA, Brazil — Rio de Janeiro’s posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home.
The outage came two weeks after a massive blackout left more than 60 million people in the dark and raised questions about the nation’s ability to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Light SA, which supplies electricity to the city of 6 million, said only 12,000 clients were affected starting before dawn in the tony Rio district of Leblon. But lights were also out in Copacabana, Ipanema and Lagoa; all told, the four neighborhoods have more than 250,000 residents.
