President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, spoke on Wednesday (14), by telephone, about the political impasse in Venezuela, after the elections at the end of July, whose results that re-elected Nicolás Maduro are being contested by the opposition and several countries. 
“I was on the phone with Colombia to see if we could find a political solution to the problem in Venezuela, to see if we could restore democratic tranquility in that country,” Lula revealed during a federal government event with representatives from the health industry sector to announce investments. The president did not provide details about the content of the conversation.
The phone call between Lula and Petro took place a day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador decided to withdraw from the mediation he had been holding with Brazil and Colombia to try to resolve the Venezuelan crisis. During a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Obrador said he would await the analysis of Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) regarding the contestation of the election results.
Brazil, Mexico and Colombia had been working together to demand the public release of the results of each of the 30,000 polling stations in the presidential election in Venezuela. Another request is that the authorities deal with “caution and moderation” in the demonstrations that have been taking place in the country since the end of the election. Now, the governments of Brazil and Colombia, which share the largest borders with Venezuela, must continue trying to obtain a new political agreement between Maduro and the opposition.
