Celso Amorim says that ‘external intervention’ in Venezuela could ‘set South America on fire’

An intervention by the United States to depose the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, “could set South America on fire” and this will not be accepted by Brazil, warned President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s special advisor, Celso Amorim, in an interview with AFP.

Lula’s Foreign Minister in his first two governments (2003-2010), Amorim expressed concern about American attacks without “any evidence” against vessels belonging to alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean, close to the Venezuelan coast, which he classified as a “threat of external intervention”.

The matter, according to the advisor, could be on the agenda of the possible meeting, yet to be confirmed, between Lula and the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Sunday in Malaysia, on the sidelines of the regional summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).