Aldo Anfossi

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, p. 21

Santiago. While Chilean President Gabriel Boric yesterday avoided talking about whether or not he discussed the political situation in Venezuela with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was visiting Santiago, the latter confirmed that it was indeed a topic of conversation between the two.

During the meeting with President Gabriel Boric, I explained the initiatives that I have undertaken with Presidents Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of Mexico, in relation to the Venezuelan political process. Respect for popular sovereignty is what moves us to defend the transparency of the results.Lula said on his social networks.

The Brazilian president said that The commitment to peace is what leads us to call the parties to dialogue and promote understanding between government and opposition..

Boric, on the other hand, in the press conference with the Brazilian president, justified why he did not refer to the contingency in Venezuela.

This visit is about the Chile-Brazil relationship. I know there may be many questions, but regarding other issues of national, regional and international contingency, in particular the situation in Venezuela, I will refer to them tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon.held.

Boric welcomed the President, colleague and friend Lula, who arrived in Santiago on Sunday night for a two-day visit accompanied by 14 ministers and 250 businessmen, which according to the Chilean demonstrates the importance that Brazil gives to Chile.

In his turn, at the conference, Lula did not mention Venezuela, but spoke of A new age of bilateral relations, in reference to the diplomatic blackouthe said, what the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro meant for Brazil, when there was a very big setback and forgot the dream of integration.

They say that countries do not have friends, they have interests. That is not our case, with Chile we maintain a friendship without limits, a diverse and broad alliance. That is why we decided to make April 22, the date on which we established our diplomatic relations in 1836, the Brazil-Chile Friendship Day. Our bilateral relationship has a regional and global vocation.he commented.

Lula toured La Moneda Palace, particularly the area where President Salvador Allende, who died during the 1973 military coup, had his office, an area that was rebuilt after being destroyed during the aerial and ground bombardment that the Chilean government headquarters endured at the time.