Lula: “Why do I have to talk about Venezuela everywhere?”
The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) stated, this Monday (30), that it is necessary to create conditions for a conversation with the Venezuelan government, and that Brazil and Colombia have been making diplomatic efforts in the country.
“At the right time, we will discuss. I am very interested in Venezuela returning to democratic normality, it is a country that I have a good relationship with, it is a country that has a 1,600 km border with Brazil, it is a country that I want to be at peace, so I am interested. But we need to create the conditions so that we can talk”, defended Lula, in Mexico, where he is about to participate in the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum in the country’s Presidency.
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Lula is in Mexico, where he participated in the opening of a business seminar. Later this Monday, he will meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum
Since the beginning of the crisis in Venezuela, the dictator Nicolás Maduro He asked for a conversation with Lula, but the Brazilian president did not want to make an appointment without first giving a signal that the Venezuelan would be willing to negotiate with the opposition, which has not happened to date.
On the contrary, Maduro’s government tightened the persecution of oppositionists, leading presidential candidate Edmundo González to seek asylum in Spain.
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“The world needs this, the economy is a little atrophied all over the world and we have a market for it,” said Lula during a seminar with businesspeople in Mexico City
Recently, in a move that has so far been misunderstood by the Brazilian government, Venezuela withdrew authorization for Brazil to manage Argentina’s embassy in Caracas, after the expulsion of Argentine diplomats.
In the interview, Lula was accused of not having spoken about the Venezuelan crisis during his speech at the United Nations last week, despite it being the biggest problem in Latin America today.
“Why do I have to talk about Venezuela everywhere? I say what I want to say. That was the speech I wanted to give, and the speech was very good”, said Lula, adding later that he has been “very concerned about Venezuela for a long time, not now”. “Because the more at peace Venezuela is, the more at peace South America will be.”
(With Reuters)
