The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Mauro Vieira, participates this Sunday (4) in an extraordinary meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) called to discuss the situation in Venezuela, following a military attack orchestrated by the United States. The meeting, scheduled for the early afternoon, will take place via videoconference. 
Celac is an intergovernmental mechanism for dialogue and political agreement that permanently includes 32 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also functions as a regional forum with all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and aspires to be a unique and structured voice in political decision-making and cooperation in support of regional integration programs.
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On Saturday (3), several explosions were recorded in neighborhoods in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Amid the military attack, orchestrated by the United States, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured by elite forces North American and taken to New York.
The attack marks a new episode of direct North American interventions in Latin America. The last time the United States invaded a Latin American country was in 1989, in Panama, when the military kidnapped then-president Manuel Noriega, accusing him of drug trafficking.
Just as they did with Noriega, the United States accuses Maduro of leading an alleged Venezuelan cartel called De Los Soles, without presenting evidence. Experts in international drug trafficking question the existence of the cartel.
Donald Trump’s government offered a reward of US$50 million for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.
For critics, the action is a geopolitical measure to distance Venezuela from global adversaries of the United States, such as China and Russia, in addition to exerting greater control over the country’s oil, which owns the largest proven oil reserves on the planet.
