The Lula (PT) government informed Argentina that it will leave the custody of the country’s embassy in Venezuela. Brazil had assumed diplomatic representation at the request of President Javier Milei, in August 2024, after the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, expelled Argentine diplomats.
The Argentine Foreign Ministry and the interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, would have been informed of the decision this Friday (9), the same day that the European Council approved the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. The information was revealed by the newspaper The Nationyes Argentina.
A People’s Gazette contacted Itamaraty, but has not yet received a response. The space remains open for demonstrations. According to the The Nationthe “final straw” was Milei’s post celebrating Maduro’s capture by the United States.
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The Argentine leader published a video of his speech at the last Mercosur summit, associating President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) with the dictator. The video ends with a photo of Lula and Maduro hugging.
Lula classified the military action as a “very serious affront” to Venezuela’s sovereignty. “Attacking countries, in flagrant violation of international law, is the first step towards a world of violence, chaos and instability, where the law of the strongest prevails over multilateralism,” he said in a statement.
O The Nation stated that Italy, governed by Giorgia Meloni, will take custody of the Argentine embassy in Venezuela.
Brazil took custody of the embassies of Argentina and Peru in Venezuela
Maduro expelled diplomats from countries that did not recognize his victory in the July 2024 elections. On that occasion, the National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by the Chavista regime, declared the dictator’s victory without publishing the voting minutes to endorse or not the result of the election.
According to the CNE, Maduro had 51% against 44% for Edmundo González, the main opposition candidate. After the election, opposition leader María Corina Machado declared González’s victory. According to her, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) bloc obtained 73% of the minutes.
Brazil took custody of the Argentine and Peruvian embassies in Caracas at the beginning of August 2024. The two countries asked the Lula government for help in taking custody of the facilities. The Brazilian government must maintain the protection of Peruvian diplomatic representation.
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil inform that they have reached an agreement so that the custody of the locations of the Diplomatic Missions of the Argentine Republic and the Republic of Peru, including their assets and archives, as well as the representation of their interests and those of their nationals in Venezuelan territory, will be represented, from August 5, 2024, by the Embassy of the Federative Republic of Brazil in Caracas”, said Itamaraty at the time.
Milei thanked Brazil “enormously” for taking on the responsibility of the diplomatic representation. He went on to highlight that the “bonds of friendship” between Argentina and Brazil “are very strong and historic.”
On the 3rd, American military captured and removed the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The Chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken to the United States and appeared before a judge on Monday (5) to answer for crimes related to drug trafficking. Both claimed innocence.
