The president of the Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Filipe Barros (PL-PR), stated that he wants to summon the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, and former Chancellor Celso Amorim, now a special advisor to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), to provide clarifications on the Brazilian government’s position in relation to Venezuela.
To the Political BroadcastGrupo Estado’s real-time news system, Barros said he will schedule the calls in the first week of February, when the Chamber is expected to resume legislative work. The deputy declared that he tried to hold an emergency meeting of the commission during the recess, due to the United States military operation that overthrew Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. However, he reported being stopped by the regiment.
“I took some initiatives that we will appreciate in the first week of February, when we return from recess. The first of them is the summoning of Mauro Vieira and Celso Amorim. Celso Amorim is, as we all know, the de facto chancellor. So, the presence of Mauro Vieira, who is responsible for Itamaraty, is extremely important, but the person who designs Lula’s international policy and strategy is Celso Amorim”, he stated, this Tuesday, 6.
In the report, the parliamentarian mentioned a meeting between the heads of the Brazilian and Venezuelan Executives, in Brasília, in May 2023, and recalled that Lula said at the time that Maduro was not “a bad man”.
“They have to provide clarification to the National Congress about what the Lula government’s stance actually is, because there has always been, historically, an alignment between the PT and the left with the Nicolás Maduro regime,” said Barros. “Maduro came to Brazil to visit President Lula. Lula even joked with the journalists who were following the visit, saying that many of the journalists had heard all their lives that he (Maduro) was a bad person, but that he was nothing like that.”
The deputy also said that he will file a request for a “motion in support of the arrest of drug dictator Nicolás Maduro”. Furthermore, the parliamentarian defended the approval of sending correspondence to the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS) so that they declare support for Maduro’s continued imprisonment.
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Finally, Barros informed that he is negotiating an official commission mission to Operation Acolhida, on the border between Brazil and Venezuela in the State of Roraima, to verify the assistance work for Venezuelan refugees and migrants. “I want to see if I can do this at the beginning of February”, he declared. “The tendency is for the flow of refugees to increase slightly,” he added.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, reported on Saturday, 3, that his government had bombed Venezuelan territory and “captured” the head of the Chavista regime and his wife, Cília Flores, with the help of American intelligence officers. The United States claims that Chavista leads a drug cartel and is responsible for terrorist violence.
On Monday, the 5th, Maduro said in New York Court that he is innocent and that he was “kidnapped”. This Tuesday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights declared that the American intervention in Venezuela violated international law. Right now, Venezuela is being governed by Maduro’s deputy, Delcy Rodríguez.
