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South AmericaAfter three years of absence, Brazil returns to Celac
Three years after leaving the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) at the initiative of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil, now led by the left and Lula’s workers’ party, will rejoin the organization.
The assembly of Celac in January 2022.
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The new left-wing government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Thursday the return of Brazil to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), from which the country withdrew three years ago by order of the then far-right head of state Jair Bolsonaro.
The government informed the member countries of this international organization, “of the complete and immediate reintegration of Brazil, in all the bodies of the organization, both those of a political nature and those of a technical nature”, indicated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Brazilian in a press release. Brazil had withdrawn from Celac in January 2020, the government of Mr. Bolsonaro having judged at the time that the organization “gave the first role to non-democratic regimes like those of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua “.
Lula to Buenos Aires end of January
The Celac, launched in December 2011 by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died in 2013, brings together all the countries of the American continent with the exception of the United States and Canada. “Brazil’s return to the Community of Latin American States is an essential step in the restoration of our diplomatic heritage and for the country’s full reintegration into the international community,” the statement said. Lula will travel to Buenos Aires to participate in the Celac summit on January 23 and 24.
The left-wing leader, who has already governed South America’s largest economy between 2003 and 2010, thus shows his desire to break the international isolation of Brazil which had marked the mandate of Jair Bolsonaro. In his inaugural address to Congress, the left-wing leader pledged, among other things, to resume “South American integration” and to renew a “high and active” dialogue with the United States, Europe and China.
(AFP)