Lula assured that he seeks to resume talks with Venezuela so that “democratic normality” returns in the country.

• The Brazilian president assured that he seeks to make South America a “zone of peace” | Photo: EFE

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, assured this Monday, September 30 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,” Lula stated in statements to journalists in Ciudad from Mexico.

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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.

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, speaks to the media this Monday at the end of a press conference in Mexico City (Mexico). Photo: EFE/Bienvenido Velasco

“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.

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.

Unsuccessful efforts

On September 6, Lula reiterated that he did not recognized the result of the presidential elections in Venezuela and insisted that his counterpart Nicolás Maduro must prove that he won those elections, which were held on July 28 and which were denounced as fraudulent by the opposition.

“I think Maduro’s behavior is disappointing. In Brazil we learned (about) democracy with a lot of suffering, although when people are extremist, they do not accept it. I think that Maduro, as president, should prove that he was the favorite of the Venezuelan people, but he does not do it,” Lula declared in an interview with the Brazilian radio station Radio Diffuser.

However, Lula has insisted on the possibility of continuing to attempt joint mediation by Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to promote a dialogue between the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and the opposition after the July elections, whose official results gave the president’s 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. .

With information from EFE

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