The presidents of Uruguay and Chile criticized this Tuesday (30) the speech by the Brazilian leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, made the day before, that there were created "narratives" regarding the political situation in Venezuela.
Luis Lacalle Pou, from Uruguay, said he was surprised by the PT member's statement in the meeting with the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
"This meeting [of South American leaders] was anticipated, I don't know if it was planned, by a bilateral meeting between Brazil and Venezuela", said the center-right politician during the summit organized by Lula in Brasilia. "I was surprised when it was said that what happens in Venezuela is a narrative. You already know what we think about the government of Venezuela."
In the same vein, Chile's leader, left-wing Gabriel Boric, a critic of the Venezuelan dictatorship, said he expressed a discrepancy with Lula's statement.
"It's not a narrative construct, it's a reality," Boric said. "It is a serious [reality], and I had the opportunity to see it in the eyes and in the pain of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who come to our homeland and who also demand a firm and clear position so that human rights are respected always and everywhere".
Translated by Cassy Dias