President Lula is a funny guy, once I read somewhere that in a meeting with Obama, the USA president told him (Lula) he was the most famous president in the world, because when that last world economy crisis had popped, Lula'd say it was something only temporary and that it would pass, as everything else always passes. That speaks well of his 'responsibility', yes? In our country he is also famous for being a person who likes the
cachaça or a good alcohol drink, to be more precise. Take a look a these funny pics:
Brazilians are doomed.
Nevertheless, in the past few months I remember reading an article on local paper saying his popularity had grown in the past few years and he is on his second mandate right now.
Now regarding the blackout it was indeed hard. It makes you feel and see how dependent you are from electricity power. It's simply harder to do anything else, in the pitch black, and the fear for burglary is always present too, lucky nothing like that happened on my area.