Brazil Refuses to Align With u.s. And Ignore Official Results of the Venezuelan Elections

Celso Amorin accompained by the President Nicolas Maduro, July 2024 Photo: VTV

August 2, 2024 Hour: 4:47 pm

These were the statements made by the special envoy of the Brazilian president to Caracas.

Celso Amorín, special advisor to Brazilian president Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva and sent to Caracas, Venezuela, rejected this Friday’s agreement with the US. or other powers in an attempt to ignore the results offered by the National Electoral Council of Venezuela.

According to statements by Amorín, we need to talk with the CNE itself, with the other actors and have a clearer idea of what happened, because the truth to this day we do not have that clear vision because the minutes were not distributed as expected».

However, he emphatically refused to give credence to alleged data submitted by the opposition: ‘Opposition data are informal data, some of them even based on quick-counting mechanisms, ‘exit polls’, polls. So it’s something that should be studied and researched better.”

He explained that “[The Brazilian government] has had a very similar vision to that of Mexico and Colombia, which are countries directly interested in resolving this situation peacefully”.

Interview with Celso Amorin in Portuguese

The most relevant part of his speech was his statement that «it is difficult for Brazil to follow the path of the United States [to recognize a presumed victory of the candidate Edmundo González]»although he acknowledged that talks are ongoing with Washington.

In that regard, he reaffirmed that, beyond any conversation with the U.S. We will not follow automatically. Brazil has long since abandoned the policy of automatic alignment, with anyone».

Brazil has refused to validate the claim of some governments in the region to recognize a supposed victory of the opposition candidate Edmundo González and has maintained, Colombia and Mexico, a position of absolute respect for the Venezuelan institutions, in particular those emanating from the CNE, as an authority in this matter.