Bolsonaro receives Nicolás Maduro’s opponents
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro welcomed exiled Venezuelan Supreme Court Chief Justice Miguel Ángel Martins and Organization of the American States (OAS) International Affairs Adviser Gustavo Cinose this afternoon (Jan. 17) at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasília.
They were joined by Brazil’s Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo. The meeting with the president lasted for about one hour.
This morning, Araújo met with opponents and critics of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, in addition to representatives from countries in the Lima Group—a group of nations assembled to seek an answer to the crisis in Venezuela—and the US, in a meeting that lasted some six hours, held behind closed doors.
Under debate were alternate ways to tackle the political and economic crisis assailing Venezuela, which has led to shortage in supplies, emigration waves, human rights violations. International leaders believe Maduro’s government is illegitimate, as doubts loom over the elections that kept him in power.
