- The diplomacy of that country requested that the Venezuelan government allow the departure of the leaders who have been asylum since May 2024
The Foreign Minister of Brazil, Mauro Vieira, met on Thursday, September 26, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Yván Gil, to request safe passage for the six Venezuelan opponents who are taking refuge in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas and who are under the responsibility of Brazil.
The news network CNN reported that the meeting, held on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York (United States), focused on the request that asylum seekers be able to leave Venezuela without reprisals.
Upon request, Gil said that he would talk internally within the government of Nicolás Maduro to evaluate this decision.
On his social networks, the Venezuelan foreign minister limited himself to saying that he spoke with Vieira about “bilateral relations, as well as regional and global geopolitics.”
The request from Brazilian diplomacy occurs after the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry announced on September 7 that it had made the decision to immediately revoke the approval granted to him by the custody of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas. Several governments condemned the measure as violating the principles of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
The measure did not proceed and Brazil responded that it would continue to represent the interests of Argentina until another “acceptable” state for the Venezuelan government is designated.
Who are the opposition asylum seekers in the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela?
The leaders are Claudia Macero, Mottola Magalli Meda, Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli, Fernando Martínez, Humberto Villalobos and Omar González. The opponents requested protection measures because they claimed to be victims of persecution for being collaborators of the opposition leader María Corina Machado and her political party Vente Venezuela.
No response on the possibility of safe passage for asylum-seeking political leaders
The Venezuelan government has denied the possibility that the six opposition political leaders can leave the country through safe passage from May 2024.
On that date, a total of 27 former presidents belonging to the group of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) They demanded through a document signed on May 13 to the government of Nicolás Maduro the granting of safe conduct to six members of the Vente Venezuela party.
IDEA highlighted that the refusal of Nicolás Maduro’s government to provide safe passage to opposition leaders is a “violation” of the Caracas treaty and recalled that this is a humanitarian practice to safeguard the integrity of those who are persecuted for political reasons.
Likewise, the signatories urged the member countries of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States to denounce, in their opinion, the violations of the right to asylum committed by the Venezuelan State.
Brazil’s position regarding the post-electoral crisis in Venezuela
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has not recognized either the victory of Maduro or that of Edmundo González Urrutia, the latter supported by part of the international community, and has insisted in the publication of the electoral records in a disaggregated manner.
On September 6, Lula He insisted that his counterpart Nicolás Maduro must prove who won those elections, which were held on July 28 and which were denounced as fraudulent by the opposition.
The Brazilian president, together with Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, have tried to mediate in the crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, but neither country has yet recognized Maduro’s victory.
However, on September 26, for the first time, Petro assured that both his country and Brazil will not recognize Maduro. if the minutes are not presented.
“I am going to chat with President Lula now. We remain at one point: if there is no presentation of minutes, there is no recognition,” said the Colombian president in an interview with CNN in New York, where he participates in the UN General Assembly.
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2024-09-27 20:49:17
