On vacation in Rio de Janeiro, President Lula gave advice to his aides on how to deal with the Trump administration’s threats to invade Venezuela in an attempt to topple the regime of dictator Nicolas Maduro.
The PT member’s “instructions”, according to former chancellor Celso Amorim, current head of Lula’s International Council at the Planalto Palace, is that attacks on the South American continent are not tolerated.
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“The instructions are the same: attacks on the South American continent cannot be tolerated. But the degree of reaction depends on the facts and the human and material damage,” Amorim told the column.
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