Lula seeks to resume conversation with Venezuela
He President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvaassured this Monday in Mexico that it is necessary to “resume a conversation” with Venezuela so that it “returns to democratic normality” after the political crisis unleashed after the presidential elections in July.
«I am very interested in Venezuela returning to democratic normality, it is a country with which I have a good relationship, it is a country that has a 1,600 kilometer border with Brazil (…) In other words, we need to find a way to resume a democratic conversation.a,” Lula said in statements to journalists in Mexico City.
Lula is in the Mexican capital to attend this Tuesday, October 1, the inauguration of the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, who will become the first female president in the history of the North American country.
«That is why I have been worried about Venezuela for a long time, not just now. Because the more peace Venezuela has, the more peace South America will have.because we want to consecrate South America as a zone of peace, we do not want war,” he added.
Lula and his position on post-electoral Venezuela
The Brazilian president is expected to meet this afternoon with the outgoing president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at the National Palace, and in the evening he will attend the dinner offered by Sheinbaum with the rest of the official guests.
Lula has insisted on the possibility of continuing to try for joint mediation by Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to promote a dialogue between Nicolás Maduro and the opposition after the July elections, whose official results gave the president re-election.
Until now, the efforts made by Brazil together with Colombia and, to a lesser extent with Mexico, have been unsuccessful in achieving that objective.
None of the three countries has recognized the result announced by the electoral body and the Supreme Court of Venezuela, which attributed the victory to Maduro and was denounced as fraudulent by the opposition, which nominated Edmundo González Urrutia, now exiled in Spain, as a candidate. .
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