Armed intervention in Venezuela would be a humanitarian catastrophe for the Southern Hemisphere, said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in the plenary session of the 67th Mercosur Summit. “The threat to sovereignty presents itself today, under war, anti-democracy and organized crime,” he stated.
The Brazilian president stated that he proposed to Uruguay the composition of a meeting to discuss how to strengthen the fight against organized crime.
Furthermore, Lula asked the Paraguayan government, whose president, Santiago Peña, will be the next president of Mercosur, to promote a pact to end feminicide and violence against women. He also cited the policy of protecting children in the digital environment, promoted by the Brazilian leadership of the bloc.
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At the beginning of his speech, Lula mentioned the energy concession company Enel São Paulo. Last week, the state of São Paulo suffered a blackout that left 2.2 million addresses without electricity in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The president said that the other presidents at the summit could exceed the ten minutes established for speeches, and added: “what cannot be a lack of energy, right, Enel”.
