With a short message on the act of protest in the world of diplomacy.
“Good news! The ambassador of Venezuela in Brazil, Manuel Vadell, returns to Brasília with passports of Venezuelans that completed their processing between August 24th and November 1st, 2024 at the Venezuelan Embassy in Brazil”, informed the diplomatic representation itself on its X account.
The post was accompanied by a video from Vadell, with instructions on how to remove the document.
On October 30, the Venezuelan dictatorship announced the summons of Brazil’s chargé d’affaires in the Caribbean country and called Vadell to Caracas for consultations, with the aim of expressing “repudiation”.
In the note announcing the decision, the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Brazil’s special advisor in the area of foreign relations, Celso Amorim, of interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
Days earlier, Maduro had accused Itamaraty of being linked to the American State Department and said that the Brazilian ministry “always conspired against Venezuela”.
The disagreement between the two countries began after Brazil’s veto of Venezuela’s entry as a partner country in the BRICS, at the bloc’s summit held in Russia in October.
Brazil is demanding the release of voting records from the July 28 presidential election, which Chavismo rigged to keep Maduro in power.
On October 31, the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) posted a message on Instagram that showed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his face darkened and the Brazilian flag in the background, with the message “Whoever messes with Venezuela gets bad.”
After Itamaraty released a statement the following day, condemning Venezuela’s “offensive tone” and “personal attacks and rhetorical escalations,” PNB’s post was deleted.
Finally, on November 2, the Venezuelan dictatorship released a note in which it again accused Brazil of meddling in the country’s affairs and pointed out that Brasília tries to “pose itself as victims in a situation in which they clearly acted as victimizers”.
The return of the ambassador and the lowering of the temperature in the diplomatic crisis come after Lula said earlier this week in an interview that “Maduro is a problem for Venezuela, not a problem for Brazil”, minimizing the recent exchanges of barbs between Brasília and Caracas .
