According to Celso Amorim, special advisor to the Presidency for international affairs, Brazil “complies with the diplomatic ritual of relations between States”
O Poder360 found that the presence of the Brazilian ambassador in Caracas, Gilvânia Maria de Oliveira, has been confirmed, at that of Nicolás Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela, left), this Friday (10.Jan.2025) for his 3rd term of 6 years .
To , the special advisor to the Presidency of the Republic for international affairs, Celso Amorim, said that Brazil “fulfills the diplomatic ritual of relations between States” when sending the ambassador.
The president’s government (PT) has not yet recognized the Venezuelan’s victory since the result was announced. In August, the head of the Executive that Maduro still owes “an explanation for Brazilian society and the world” regarding the election.
Maduro, on the other hand, was disgusted with Brazil after the country had . Caracas considered the act as a “aggression” and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Lula government maintained “the worst” by the former president (PL).
By not sending a representative hierarchically superior to the ambassador to the inauguration, it shows that Brazil remains unhappy with the lack of transparency in the Venezuelan electoral process.
The Brazilian government even reevaluated its participation on Thursday (9th January) because of the episode involving opponent Corina María, but maintained the decision to have the Brazilian representative at the ceremony.
VENEZUELA SOB MADURO
Venezuela lives under an autocracy headed by Nicholas Maduro62 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 published.
The Carter Center, a respected organization created by the former US president (1924-2024), 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) not having seen 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 and general amnesty. Read the of the document (PDF – 2 MB).
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