Since 2018, Maduro he was only frequently in Cuba and Nicaragua, he traveled to Mexico for another summit of the celac y did not even attend the inauguration of Lula in Brazil.
The presence of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroat the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), raises as many blisters as that of the Cuban dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel.
For Maduro it is an opportunity to reverse international isolation caused by his re-election in 2018, branded as fraudulent, and the consequent economic, political and social crisis for which he is accused of severe violations of human rights and the unprecedented exodus of Venezuelans.
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From Celac, created in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in 2010 and established in Caracas the following year with the presence of Hugo Chávez and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, not part of the United States, Canada, Old and bearded, Bahamas, Barbados, Belice, Dominica, Grenada.
It is an area of political coordination that, unlike Mercosur, it does not aim at an integration process, and, unlike the Organization of American States (OAS), it does not have the status of an international organization.
The president of Mexico will not be at the summit, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwhose trips are limited to the United States, nor that of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega.
With Lula’s arrival today, the Celac summit begins to warm up
A context with good and bad for Maduro
Maduro He is not going through his best moment in his country or in his relationship with the United States. In Venezuela, teachers, public employees and other unions carry out protests against low wages.
For his part, The United States accuses him of turning Venezuela into a narco-state that sponsors terrorism, joining the FARC to export cocaine to the North American country. For the contribution of information that leads to the arrest of Maduro, the White House offers US$15 million.
The Venezuelan president found a more agreeable context after the war in Ukraine; the energy crisis; the United States’ need for oil despite its good relations with Russia, China and Iran, and the willingness of Lula and the new Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, to build diplomatic bridges with Caracas.
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