Donald Trump will receive Jair Bolsonaro at the White House in mid-March



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The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, will meet his American counterpart, Donald Trump, in mid-March at the White House, said Tuesday the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo.

In statements to the press, Mr. Araújo said that Mr. Bolsonaro's visit to the United States was one of the topics of his meeting in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

"In mid-March, we are still determining the datesaid Araújo, who explained that during his visit, Bolsonaro will deal with both economic issues and issues related to security and diplomacy in Latin America.

The crisis in Venezuela was one of the other major themes of the appointment of Araújo and Pompeo., as well as the meeting between the Brazilian Foreign Minister and the White House National Security Advisor, John Bolton.

In a Twitter post, Bolton explained that both were talking about "logistic"give humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan people, as well as to his"mutual support"to the speaker of the parliament, Juan Guaidó, who declared himself the 23 January interim president of Venezuela and was recognized, inter alia, by the United States and Brazil.

The United States has already started to send humanitarian aid parcels with food and medicine for the Venezuelan people, announced Saturday EFE a spokesman for the White House.

This weekend, Guaidó announced that he had formed a "national and international coalition"of humanitarian aid to Venezuela with points for distributing food and food in Cúcuta (Colombia) and Brazil, as well as on a Caribbean island, although it was not not specified which one.

The entry of humanitarian aid through a humanitarian corridor may require the presence of troops, American or from another Latin American country.

The group of Lima, integrated among others by Brazil and Colombia, decided Monday not to examine the military option of forcing the departure of the presidency of Nicolás Maduro, who took office on January 10 following the elections questioned by the international community.

(With EFE information)

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