The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, insisted “that political problems are not solved with weapons. “They are resolved with dialogue,” in response to a question about Venezuela
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvastated this Tuesday, November 4, that the Celac-EU summit, which will be held next week in Colombia, “makes no sense” if it does not talk about the United States attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea.
Lula said that he is considering attending the summit despite his scheduling difficulties, with the intention of “defending the countries of Latin America.”
“The CELAC meeting only makes sense at this moment if we discuss this issue of American warships here in the seas of Latin America,” Lula stated in a press conference with international agencies.
The Brazilian president recalled that he spoke about the situation in Venezuela with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, on which occasion he stressed that the solution must be political and that “Latin America is a zone of peace.”
«I don’t want us to come to a ground invasion. I told President Trump, and I repeat it to you, that political problems are not solved with guns. “They are resolved with dialogue,” Lula explained in response to a question about Venezuela.
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Brazil asks for another alternative to US attacks
Lula also assured that Brazil has “every interest” in helping in the conflict and said that the United States, if it wants to fight drug trafficking, should “be trying to help these countries” instead of “shooting” at them.
“The Police have every right to fight drug trafficking and the responsibility to do so, and the Americans could be trying to help those countries, not trying to shoot at those countries,” he stressed.
The Brazilian president stressed that the only admissible conflict in Latin America is a “verbal” one.
«The only conflict we want is a verbal one that does not harm or take lives.that it does not demolish bridges, that it does not destroy railways, that it does not destroy houses and that it does not cause harm either. “We don’t need a dispute in Latin America,” Lula added.
The United States has carried out a military deployment in the Caribbean in recent months and has launched a series of air attacks against civilian boats, in Caribbean waters near Venezuela and in the Pacific, which it accuses of drug trafficking.
Since the beginning of September, at least 60 people have died in these attacks, which the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has condemned and described as “extrajudicial executions.”
With information from EFE
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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