2023-05-31 22:41:05
The regional summit organized by President Lula da Silva, in Brasilia, began and ended on the wrong foot, the left. The rude attempt to wash the face of the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, who drags a string of complaints in international forums such as human rights violations, corruption, money laundering and the like, fell like a stinking bomb among the summoned leaders.
The presidents of Chile and Uruguay, Gabriel Boric and Luis Lacalle, for example, immediately distanced themselves, expressing their disagreement with the words of the Brazilian leader.
As is well known, upon honorably receiving the heir to Chavismo, who was the first president to arrive at the meeting, Lula delivered a pompous address in which he seemed to allude to an alternative reality: “I have gone to countries that do not know where is Venezuela, but they say that Venezuela has a dictatorship. Nicolás Maduro, you have to deconstruct that narrative. Narratives are built against the people. You know the narrative that they have built about authoritarianism and anti-democracy. You have the means to (do it)…”.
A speech with presumably academic twists that omits the cruel reality suffered by the millions of Venezuelans in their territory and the hardships of the more than 7 million who were ejected from their homes to neighboring countries, so as not to live poorly in misery or persecution .
Although, predictably, the presidents of Argentina and Colombia followed in the footsteps of the Brazilian by paying court to Maduro, Gabriel Boric declared that he had expressed his discrepancy to the host of the summit, telling him that what was happening in Venezuela was not a narrative construction, but a serious reality “I have had the opportunity to see (that reality) in the eyes and in the pain of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are in our country today,” he pointed out.
President Luis Lacalle, for his part, declared himself surprised that Lula claimed that it was just “a narrative”: “If there are so many groups in the world that are trying to mediate so that democracy is full in Venezuela, so that human rights are respected, that there are no political prisoners, the worst thing we can do is cover the sun with a finger”.
A summit, then, that in the face of so much dissonance generated by the Venezuelan dictator, ended up going downhill.
Luis Nunes on Lula’s meeting
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