Caracas, Jan 16 (EFE).- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, celebrated this Monday the reincorporation of Brazil into the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), a mechanism from which the South American giant withdrew three years ago under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and to whom he returned after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came to power on January 1.
“The Celac Summit in Buenos Aires is coming soon, it will be a good opportunity for the voice of our peoples to be heard. Lula da Silva will be there, reincorporating Brazil into Celac, Brazil rejoins Celac. ( …) Bolsonaro resigned from Celac and separated Brazil, the great Brazil, from Celac,” Maduro said after a meeting with the high political and military command.
In this sense, the head of state stated that “there is a new time in Latin America and the Caribbean, new and good winds of integration and union are blowing, and there goes Venezuela at the forefront of the union of Latin America and the Caribbean.” .
Argentina received last Thursday the formal letter with which Brazil formalized its return to Celac, after the decision of former President Bolsonaro, on January 16, 2020, to suspend its participation in the mechanism because he alleged that it supported “non-democratic” regimes. “, like those of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
With this formalization, the intergovernmental mechanism for political coordination, which was born in February 2010, once again has its 33 members.
The body, which brings together almost all the members of the Organization of American States (OAS) with the exception of the United States and Canada, but with the presence of Cuba, was an initiative of Lula.
The next Summit of Celac Heads of State and Government will take place on January 24 in Buenos Aires, an event that the Brazilian president will attend.
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