The presence of Ambassador Glivânia de Oliveira depends, however, on an invitation from the neighboring country; Lula still does not recognize the Venezuelan’s victory
The government of the president (PT) will send a representative to the inauguration of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela, left), scheduled for January 10.
According to the Poder360if the neighboring country decides to hold an open ceremony with the presence of heads of state, Brazil will be represented by the ambassador in Caracas, Glivânia Maria de Oliveira.
The CNE (National Electoral Council), aligned with the Chavista government, declared Maduro’s victory in the July 28 elections. The opposition alleges that there was electoral fraud and says that the winner was Edmundo González Urrutia (Democratic Unitary Platform, center-right).
Allies for decades, Lula has still not recognized the leftist’s victory as president of Venezuela. In an interview with Radio Tfrom Curitiba (PR), on August 15, 2024, the PT member that the Venezuelan still owes a “explanation for Brazilian society and the world”.
On December 28 last year, associations and groups with a leftist orientation wrote a letter to President Lula asking him to recognize Maduro’s victory.
The letter is addressed only to the President of the Republic and his special advisor Celso Amorim, who is, in practice, the one who defines Brazil’s foreign diplomatic policy. The signatories ignore the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Tensions between countries increased after Venezuela joined the Brics through Brazil. Caracas considered the veto a “aggression” and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Lula government maintained “the worst” of the former president (PL).
VENEZUELA SOB MADURO
Venezuela lives under an autocracy headed by Nicholas Maduro61 years old. There is no freedom of the press. People can be arrested for “political crimes”. THE published in May 2021 (PDF – 179 kB) regarding the “illegitimate appointment” of the National Electoral Council.
A reported abuses in (PDF – 150 kB), (PDF – 161 kB) e (PDF – 151 kB). da Human Rights Watch in 2023 (PDF – 5 MB) states that 7.1 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014.
Maduro denies that the country lives under a dictatorship. He says there are regular elections and the opposition simply cannot win.
The presidential elections on July 28, 2024 are contested by the international community. The main opposition leader, María Corina, in June 2023 to hold public office for 15 years. The Venezuelan Supreme the decision in January 2024. He claimed “administrative irregularities” that were allegedly committed when she was a deputy, from 2011 to 2014, and for “corruption plot” for supporting Juan Guaidó.
Corina indicated the ally Corina Yoris to compete. However, Yoris because of an alleged flaw in the electoral system. The diplomat Edmundo González the role of being the main opposition candidate.
Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council on July 28, 2024, Maduro’s victory. The organ the result on August 2, 2024, but did not publish the ballots. The Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, controlled by the current regime, on August 22, 2024 that the bulletins will not be released.
The Carter Center, a respected organization created by former US President USA Jimmy Carter, that the elections in Venezuela “they were not democratic”. Read the (in English – PDF – 107 kB) of the statement.
The results have subsequently been contested by the European Union and by several individual countries, such as the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. Brazil has not yet recognized Maduro’s election in 2024, but neither does it make tougher demands like other countries that point to fraud in the process. The president (PT) did not see anything unusual in the country’s election.
Human Rights Watch criticized presidents Lula, Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico) in August 2024. They stated in a letter sent to the 3 that it was necessary for them to reconsider their positions on Venezuela and criticized the leaders’ proposals to resolve the impasse, as a general amnesty. Read the document (PDF – 2 MB).
