The government of Nicolás Maduro condemned, this Thursday (14), the attacks recorded in Brasília this Wednesday and expressed solidarity with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its emphatic condemnation of the recent attacks on November 13, 2024 that occurred in Praça dos Três Poderes in the city of Brasília and which aim to undermine the peace of the government and its institutions”, expressed the ministry of Venezuelan Foreign Relations in a statement.
In the text, Maduro’s chancellery also expressed “absolute solidarity with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the entire Brazilian people”.
“These facts demonstrate, once again, the danger posed by the advance of the fascist and anti-democratic wave that, using social networks and other mass communication mechanisms, the global extreme right is trying to inoculate in our continent to produce destabilization and social chaos” , says the statement.
In the demonstration, the Venezuelan government also says it is “faithful to the principle of brotherhood and fraternity”, and claims to “continue working” so that the region “is a zone of peace”.
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By referring to the “fascist wave” and the extreme right, the Maduro government inserts an implicit criticism of the Venezuelan opposition in the statement, as it uses these expressions to refer to the leader María Corina Machado and Edmundo González, who claims to have won the presidency in the last elections, had an arrest warrant issued against him and ended up in asylum in Spain.
The statement was released hours after the Venezuelan ambassador to Brazil, Manuel Vadell, announced that he was returning to Brasília. He had been called to Caracas for consultations, in a protest by the Venezuelan government against what Maduro’s office considered to be “recurrent interventionist and rude statements from spokespeople authorized by the Brazilian government”.
The measure was taken after Brazil vetoed Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS, the bloc of emerging countries, during a summit in Russia.
Vadell’s announcement was published two days after Maduro praised Lula’s statement in an interview with RedeTV, that he could not question the Venezuelan Supreme Court’s decision.
The speech refers to the ratification, by the country’s Supreme Court of Justice, of the alleged victory of the Venezuelan president in the July 28 elections.
Maduro said he saw the statements and that Lula made “wise reflections”. “Each country has to find a way to resolve its issues, its conflicts, its problems. Brazil with its institutions and its national, sovereign dynamics and Venezuela with our institutions and our sovereign dynamics”, expressed the chavista.
In the interview, held last weekend, the Brazilian president had said that “Maduro is Venezuela’s problem, not Brazil’s” and that he cannot question the Supreme Court of other countries.
“I don’t have the right to question another country’s Supreme Court, because I don’t want any country to question my Supreme Court, even when it makes mistakes. Even when she does what she did to me by not letting me be a candidate in 2018”, he expressed.
This content was originally published in Venezuela condemns attacks in Brasília and expresses “total solidarity” with Lula on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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