Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo met in Washington on Tuesday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The Brazilian Chancellor said the issues discussed included the situation in Venezuela and the visit of President Jair Bolsonaro to the United States, scheduled for March. Mr Araujo said he hoped the trip "would consolidate a new partnership" between the two countries and that it "would certainly include very strong economic initiatives".
On Venezuela, the Brazilian minister said that Pompeo and himself had explained how they could try to influence the Venezuelan army so that it pbades alongside the self-proclaimed interim president. Juan Guaidó, thus allowing a transition that keeps Nicolás Maduro away from power.
Araújo said that no new punishment had been discussed in Caracas, nor a possibility of external military intervention. The military option is not in the study, he added.
Pompeo and Araújo also evoked the fact that it was necessary to give signs of an economic future for Venezuela when a new government would be consolidated. The minister said he hoped that the process of "democratic transition" that Brazil is defending would get more and more support in the coming days.
Representative of Guaidó in Brazil
The Brazilian Chancellor has said "excellent" of the appointment of the lawyer and teacher Maria Teresa Belandria to the position of diplomatic representative of Guaidó in Brazil.
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Earlier Tuesday, Araújo had met with US Secretary of Commerce Willbur Ross and the National Security Advisor. John Bolton. The themes were free trade and economic cooperation. They also exchanged ideas on Venezuela and the coordination of humanitarian aid for the country.
On Monday, Araújo attended the meeting of the Lima group, which brings together the American countries that demand the departure of Nicolás Maduro's power in Ottawa, Canada. The meeting ended with the commitment of its members not to examine the military option of forcing the overthrow of Maduro and asking other countries to increase the economic pressure on his government.
In his final statement, after six hours of meeting, the Lima group and the absence of Mexico, which disengaged from the initiative after the presidential come to power Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed that he reaffirmed "his support for a peaceful transition process by political and diplomatic means without resorting to force".
The Lima Group also decided that at the next meeting, to be held "soon" in Colombia, Venezuela will integrate with the incorporation of a representative of the self-proclaimed Venezuelan President acting, Juan Guaidó. This role will be badumed by the politician and lawyer Julio Borges.
The moderator of the meeting, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, reiterated that neither the Lima group nor its own government contemplated the military option.
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