BRASILIA, 11 Dec (Reuters) – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this Thursday that, in a phone call to United States President Donald Trump, he said that Latin America is a peaceful zone and is not interested in wars.
The North American president lays siege to Venezuela, with the intensification of the military presence in the Caribbean, and is pressing for the departure of Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro.
“Yesterday when I was talking to him… he talked to me a lot, and I said ‘Hey Trump, we don’t want war in Latin America. We are a zone of peace'”, said Lula at an event in Minas Gerais, actually referring to a phone call from last week, according to his advisor.
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Lula has shown concern about the possibility of conflict and has already offered himself as a mediator in negotiations between the two countries. The president also had, on December 2, a short telephone conversation with Maduro about pacification in the region.
On Tuesday last week, the two spoke on a phone call about commercial tariffs and the fight against organized crime, according to a statement from Palácio do Planalto.
