RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, denied Monday that the country could be on the verge of power rationing but urged economic sectors and citizens to avoid waste.
"Brazil is facing one of the worst droughts in its history," Albuquerque said in a radio and television broadcast in which he admitted that "water shortages have caused concern in many, with the possibility of rationing" of the service, as happened in 2001.
However, he asserted that the national electric system network "has evolved a lot" since then and that the strong dependence on hydroelectric . . .
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