The Venezuelan Juan Guaidó arrived in Brazil in a plane of the Colombian Air Force. This “personal visit” to Jair Bolsonaro, as it was officially defined, has included a last hour in the president’s official agenda, for comparison with the press at the Planalto Palace, headquarters of the Presidency. “There will be no scrimping efforts within the law and our tradition to restore democracy in Venezuela,” said Bolsonaro with the president in charge of Venezuela.
Guaidó has insisted on demanding “free elections and the cessation of the usurpation of power,” in reference to Nicolás Maduro and the Chavez leadership. “To rescue the industry, we must rescue democracy, human rights and the rule of law,” he insisted before criticizing “The false dilemma between war and peace.” We all want peace. ” Although the United States, the main support of Guaidó with Colombia and Brazil, insists that when dealing with the Venezuelan crisis “all options are on the table” -as he reiterated for years regarding Iran and its nuclear program-, the Lima Group expressly ruled out the use of force at its last meeting.
The Venezuelan has reiterated that he returned to Venezuela “in the coming days” without specifying more. This Friday he travels to Paraguay in an attempt that the bet to take a look at Maduro’s power does not lose strength.
Guaidó has also met in Brasilia with the ambassadors of 25 of the countries of the European Union (EU) before seeing Bolsonaro and his chancellor. The diplomats of the Union have insisted on the need for a peaceful solution, a solution agreed and, in the short term, the formation of a new electoral council to organize elections, as reported by diplomatic sources of the EU in Brasilia . The president of Brazil has insisted that there are no “individual elections, but free and reliable elections.”
Pulse in the Brazilian Cabinet
Constant changes in the agenda of the fleeting visit Guaidó -the appearance was originally Affairs, a scenario of less level- reflect tensions within the Brazilian government itself on how to deal with her figure and, in general, the crisis in the neighboring country . The vice president, Hamilton Mourão, and the foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, embody the two souls. Mourão, a retired general who was a military attaché in Caracas, sponsors a more temperate approach. Of course without resorting to force. “For us, the military option was never an option. Brazil has always supported peaceful solutions to any problem that occurs in neighboring countries, “he said in Bogotá on Monday after the meeting of the Lima Group. The vice president has always defended that the Chavista leader, Nicolás Maduro, must go into exile. Araujo is a trumpist more in favor of the alignment with the United States to restore democracy in Venezuela, with which Brazil shares 2,100 kilometers of a border that has been closed for six days.
The arrival of Bolsonaro, a harsh critic of Chavez and everything that smacks left, has been a profound change in the relationship with Venezuela Chavista and has not missed the chance to remember a battering his predecessors: “I here a mea culpa that two former presidents of Brazil were partly responsible for what is happening in Venezuela today, “he said referring to Lula da Silva, imprisoned for corruption, and Dilma Rousseff, both Workers party. “That left likes the poor people so much that it ended up multiplying them, and they equaled them from below,” he said, adopting the language that most praises his followers.
The president of Brazil will visit Israel in addition to Chile and the US
With this visit to the Brazilian far-right leader, Guaidó intends to maintain the momentum he gave his compatriots and before the international community his attempt to introduce food and sanitary materials across the borders. But the initiative was a failure. The United States, above all, but also Colombia and Brazil donated supplies, took them to the borders but those of Guaidó could not overcome the block imposed by Maduro and introduce it into Venezuelan territory. The attempt supposed the death of four Venezuelans at the hands of the security forces, border tension, Maduro broke relations with Colombia and the 800 tons of aid continue in the warehouses.
The president of Brazil will have a very traveler March. Bolsonaro will go to Israel on an official visit from March 31 to April 4, as reported by the Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. The ultra-rightist will return Prime Minister Netanyahu on the eve of the Israeli general elections for his visit to Brazil on the occasion of the takeover of the Brazilian. Bolsonaro, who has a very strong support of the most pro-Israel evangelical groups in Brazil, was baptized in the Jordan River in 2016. Before, the president plans to go to Chile on his first official trip -to Argentina’s anger, the traditional destination- United States to be received by Donald Trump in the White House.
