Armed intervention in Venezuela would be a humanitarian catastrophe for the southern hemisphere, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said during the plenary session of the 67th Mercosur summit. “The threat to sovereignty presents itself today, in the context of war, anti-democracy and organized crime,” he said.
The Brazilian president said he had proposed to Uruguay the composition of a meeting to discuss how to strengthen the fight against organized crime.
Lula also asked the Paraguayan government, whose president, Santiago Peña, will be the next president of Mercosur, to promote a pact to end femicide and violence against women. He also cited the policy of protecting children in the digital environment, promoted by the Brazilian leaders of the bloc.
At the start of his speech, Lula mentioned the energy concession company Enel São Paulo. Last week, the state of São Paulo suffered a power outage that left 2.2 million addresses without power in the São Paulo metropolitan area. The president said other presidents at the summit might exceed the ten minutes set for speeches, and added: “which can’t be a lack of energy, can it, Enel.”
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