The biggest blunder of the year: Aécio returns from Venezuela with his tail between his legs.

If Aécio Neves had won the elections in Brazil, is this what he would have done with our foreign policy? Interfere in the internal affairs of neighboring countries with which he disagrees politically?

Everything indicates that this is the case. It would quickly create a crisis on the continent, because no one doubts that Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Ecuador would certainly not support his nonsense.

Aécio and his group don't know what democracy is. Have they even read the international treaties signed by Brazil at least once?

They like street protests, but only when it's in their favor. Just because they flew to Venezuela on a Brazilian Air Force plane – which shouldn't have happened – they thought they were speaking on behalf of the Brazilian government. They weren't!

Intercepted by a small demonstration of government supporters, in traffic disrupted by a truck accident - they were terrified and returned to the airport and to Brazil, from where they should never have left.

Anyone familiar with Venezuela knows that in a country where gasoline is among the cheapest in the world, a large portion of the population owns cars, and traffic jams are constant in the capital, Caracas, on the way to the airport.

Aécio's justification was to make a humanitarian visit to Leopoldo Lopez, who was imprisoned for inciting violence against the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro.

In reality, what Aécio and his cronies tried to do was stage a media spectacle to show the world that Venezuela is a Bolivarian dictatorship, as they often say – without even explaining to their voters who Simon Bolívar was, or what importance he had for democratic freedoms on the continent.

What was a Globo team, and reporter Delis Ortiz, based in Buenos Aires, doing thousands of kilometers away from their base, and coincidentally in the same van that was transporting the senators? Of course, they were all on the same mission with common objectives.

They certainly did not intend to visit the Committee of Victims of the Guarimbas, the families of the 49 people, most of them Chavistas, killed last year after Maduro's election by armed groups working for the CIA to destabilize the country.

Aécio intended to visit a Venezuelan political prisoner accused of attempting a coup in the country. Exactly the same type of activity carried out by the PSDB senator here with the support of the mainstream media and figures in the judiciary: to impeach a democratically elected president.

The most ridiculous thing about all this is that they wanted to do it without asking for authorization from the Venezuelan government, and without officially representing the Brazilian government.

Have they completely lost it? Why don't the mega-humanitarian senators from Aécio's group take a Brazilian Air Force plane and try to visit political prisoners in an American prison without the approval of the Obama administration's judicial branch?

Why did Aécio, who was a congressman for so many years, including president of the Chamber of Deputies, never bother to visit Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years by the apartheid regime in South Africa? He would have had time.

Why have they never bothered to visit the prisoners at the American base in Guantanamo, Cuba? Let me laugh. They're pathetic.

During the military dictatorship in Brazil, then supported by their excellencies of today, Ronaldo Caiado, Agripino Maia, etc., no senator from another country came here to complain – and the republic of the generals wouldn't allow it – to visit our tortured and murdered political prisoners, many of whom remain missing to this day.

Why are the senators not concerned about the American actions of invading and destroying countries like Iraq, Libya, and many others in the name of false humanitarian aid?

This aid often involves the rape of women and children by soldiers and mercenaries paid by multinational corporations interested in usurping the wealth of invaded countries.

It was a blunder. Yes. But the Brazilian Senate will correct the mistake. Next Wednesday, an External Commission of the Senate, composed of Senators Randolfe Rodrigues, Lídice da Mata, Vanessa Grazziotin, and Lindbergh Farias, will travel to Venezuela, under the coordination of Senator Roberto Requião, elected last week in Brussels as president of the European Parliament of Latin America, a well-deserved position for figures of his political stature.

Request 17, approved on Thursday by the senators, states that the mission's objective is to verify in situ the political, economic, and social situation in Venezuela, making contact with the constituted authorities and legitimate representatives of society in that friendly country.

The document clarifies that "we recently had the creation of an external commission approved, which nevertheless does not meet the requirements of impartiality and objectivity that the gravity of the moment demands. The distinguished senators who were part of that mission marked their discourse by inciting the exacerbation of passions, both to achieve objectives in Brazilian domestic politics (political weakening of the federal government) and to strengthen one side in the Venezuelan democratic dispute."

In the script of the global agenda, Aécio Neves, the savior of the oppressed in Venezuela, while still on the plane, stated that the group was going to Caracas to also fulfill a diplomatic mission omitted by the Brazilian government: to visit political prisoners in Venezuela.

Before telling Itamaraty what to do, Aécio should remember that he didn't win the elections. He lost the elections. I hope his advisors remind him of this and instruct him not to repeat the ridiculous role he just played: going with Brazilian senators to a foreign nation, a friend and partner in Mercosur, to speak ill of Brazil and endorse there the same coup-mongering he preaches here.

What a blunder, Senator!