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Rio de Janeiro.- The meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to discuss the US attack on Venezuela ended this Sunday without consensus, sources familiar with its development confirmed to EFE.
According to these same sources, the participants in the meeting did not have much hope that a common position would be reached on the capture of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as on the bombing of several military installations in the country.The CELAC, whose pro tempore presidency is held by Colombia, brings together all the states of Latin America and, therefore, governments that have expressed diametrically opposed views on the military operation participate in it. On the one hand, in the field on the right, the presidents of Argentina, Javier Milei; Ecuador, Daniel Noboa; and El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, celebrated the fall of Maduro, whom they labeled a "narcoterrorist," in line with the vocabulary used by the U.S. government of Donald Trump.The urgent ministerial meeting was requested on Saturday by the Brazilian Government and was held via videoconference.
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On the other side, in the rows on the left, the leaders of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; Chile, Gabriel Boric; Colombia, Gustavo Petro; and Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, condemned the action. Lula, president of the largest regional power, stated on Saturday that the military operation "crossed an unacceptable line" and represented a "very serious affront to the sovereignty" of Venezuela. Furthermore, Lula said that the UN must give a "vigorous" response to the events and assured that Brazil "remains available" to "promote the path of dialogue and cooperation". At the same time, the Brazilian Chancellery recognized Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as the interim leader in the absence of the president. Maduro and his wife were transferred to the U.S., where they will answer in court to accusations of involvement in drug trafficking, according to the U.S. government.
