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Ana Maria Braga Condemns São Paulo Blackout After Family Endures Days Without Power

Her on-air account underscores citywide outages, highlighting slow restoration versus fast billing.

Overview

  • Opening TV Globo's Mais Você on December 15, the presenter criticized a prolonged power outage that affected multiple neighborhoods of São Paulo.
  • She said her son Pedro, daughter-in-law Manu and grandson Bento were left without electricity for several days, describing emotional strain on daily life.
  • Ana Maria reported material losses, including spoiled freezer contents and discarded purchases for Christmas celebrations.
  • She questioned utility accountability by contrasting delayed reconnection with the speed of monthly billing and service cutoffs for late payment.
  • A report cited developing estimates of roughly six consecutive days without power for about 32,000 households and multimillion-real losses, which have not been independently verified.