After a meeting between 11 heads of state held this Tuesday (30), at the Itamaraty Palace, the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, countered the speech of the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), about the accusations of violation of human rights in Venezuela.
“It is not a narrative construction, it is a reality, it is serious, and I had the opportunity to see it up close in the faces and pain of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who, today, have come to our homeland and who also demand a firm position and clear that human rights must be respected always and everywhere, regardless of the political color of the current ruler. This applies to all of us”, commented the Chilean.
On Monday (29), Lula stated that Venezuela “is the victim of a narrative of anti-democracy and authoritarianism”. The statement was made alongside the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, after a bilateral meeting at the Planalto Palace.
Boric assessed that, despite following the left-wing political spectrum, he thought it was important to defend his position in the first face-to-face meeting in front of Maduro. The Chilean said he respectfully disagreed with Lula on the recent statement.
“The truth is that we are happy for Venezuela to return to multilateral spaces, because we believe that, in these spaces, it is where problems are solved, and not with declarations in which we attack each other. This, however, cannot mean that we should push it under the rug or turn a blind eye to issues with principles that are important to all of us”, analyzed Boric.
The president of Uruguay, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, made a speech along the same lines during the meeting in Brasilia this Tuesday. He said he was “surprised” that Lula’s speech about the dictatorship in Venezuela was a “narrative”.
“I was surprised when it was said that what happened in Venezuela was a narrative. You already know what we think about Venezuela and the government of Venezuela. If there are so many groups in the world that are mediating for there to be full democracy in Venezuela, for human rights to be respected and for there to be no political prisoners, the worst thing we can do is block the sun with our finger. Let’s give it the name it has and let’s help”.
However, Boric made a kind of appeal to the United States and the European community, as he stated that the South American heads of state had taken a stand against the sanctions imposed on Venezuela.
“The sanctions imposed on the people do not affect the rulers, but harm the people. That’s why we appealed to the US and the European community to end the sanctions, to allow the Venezuelan people to move forward.”
This Tuesday, Lula received ten presidents from South American countries, as well as a representative of the Peruvian government, for a meeting at the Itamaraty Palace, in Brasília.
The current president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, unable to attend, was represented by the president of the Council of Ministers, Alberto Otárola.
Source: CNN Brasil
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