The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said he was very concerned about the military deployment that the US maintains in the Caribbean. He also asked not to repeat the mistake that was made in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, assured this Sunday, November 23, after closing the G20 Leaders Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, that he will speak with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, to avoid a military conflict with Venezuela.
During a press conference, Lula said he was “very concerned” about the military deployment that the Trump administration has maintained in the Caribbean since mid-August and which he says is to fight drug trafficking.
“I am concerned because South America is considered a zone of peace,” stressed the Brazilian president.
«We are a continent that does not have nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, we have nothing. There, our goal is to work to develop and grow. I am very concerned about the military apparatus that the United States has deployed in the Caribbean Sea. I am very worried. And I intend to talk to President Trump about this, because it worries me,” emphasized Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Lula stressed that Brazil “has a responsibility to South America” and recalled that his country shares a border with Venezuela, something that “is no small thing,” and emphasized that “it makes no sense to have a war now.”
«We are not going to repeat the mistake that was made in the war between Russia and Ukraine. To start, all it takes is one shot and who knows how it will end. That’s why it’s important that we find a solution before it starts. “I am very worried and I would not want anything military to happen in South America,” the president concluded.
Lula da Silva has offered himself as a mediator between Washington and Caracas to prevent tensions from continuing to escalate and prevent a war in the region.
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In recent months, the United States has reinforced its military presence in the Caribbean and the Latin American Pacific with ships, combat aircraft and special forces, amid growing tensions with Venezuela, in a deployment that the Donald Trump Government frames in its ‘Lance of the South’ initiative and in the fight against drug trafficking.
Nicolás Maduro considers that this deployment is an attempt to remove him from power, which is why he has ordered, for months, that the country remain on alert and carry out military preparation exercises in the event of a possible “aggression.”
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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