The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has canceled the meeting he had planned this Monday with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, on the sidelines of the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
«There will be no meeting with Maduro in Argentina. It was cancelled», Lula da Silva’s government informed, according to the news portal Metropoles, without giving further details of what happened.
The meeting was scheduled for late Monday afternoon at the hotel where President Lula and the rest of the Brazilian delegation are staying in Buenos Aires.
The objective was to strengthen diplomatic ties after the four years of Jair Bolsonaro — who recognized the oppositionist Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela — and to analyze the situation of this country with respect to Mercosur, a body from which it was expelled in 2016.
Maduro’s presence at the CELAC summit has been criticized by certain sectors that consider that his responsibility in the crisis suffered by the country disqualifies him from being present at this type of meetings and at the same time that it legitimizes him internationally after several years recognizing Guaidó as president.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
