Lula's government will send a representative to Venezuela to begin reopening diplomatic missions.
The representations, including the Brazilian Embassy in Caracas, had been closed by the Bolsonaro government.
247 - The Lula (PT) government will send a representative to Venezuela next week to begin the reopening of Brazilian diplomatic missions in the country, including the Embassy in Caracas, which were closed by the administration of former head of state Jair Bolsonaro.
Ambassador Flávio Macieira will travel to Venezuela as chargé d'affaires and will be tasked with listing the necessary steps to get diplomatic missions back up and running. He has previously served as ambassador in Oslo, Norway, and has worked in the embassies in Baghdad, Paris, and Bern.
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Upon being chosen as the new foreign minister at the end of 2022, Mauro Vieira guaranteed that the Lula government would resume diplomatic relations with Caracas and recognize the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
Proposal for a new political bloc
On Thursday (12), President Maduro said in the National Assembly that he spoke with President Lula about the creation of a new "political bloc" in the region, which would constitute a new "pole of power" alongside other important centers, such as China and Russia.
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“I was discussing this with Lula on the phone the other day, personally with President Gustavo Petro, I was discussing this with the President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández. A new time is coming, a special time to unite the efforts and paths of Latin America and the Caribbean to advance in the formation of a powerful bloc of political forces, of economic power that speaks to the world,” said Maduro.
"That community of shared destiny that our older brother, President Xi Jinping, speaks of. Humanity as a community of shared destiny. Or that multipolar and multicentric world that our older brother, President Vladimir Putin, speaks of."
"For that world to arrive, a united and progressive Latin American and Caribbean bloc is necessary," Maduro added. (With information from...) Folha de S. Paul).
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