Overview
- Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to continue cooperating with Caracas to support peace, dialogue and stability in the country and the region.
- Both leaders repudiated attacks on Venezuelan sovereignty and rejected any framing that revives spheres of influence.
- In a separate call, Lula and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro expressed great concern over the use of force and said the dispute must be settled exclusively through peaceful negotiation that respects the Venezuelan people’s will.
- Lula and Petro welcomed an announcement by National Assembly leader Jorge Rodríguez to release Venezuelan and foreign political prisoners.
- Lula discussed what he described as a U.S. intervention that resulted in Nicolás Maduro being taken to New York, a reported claim not independently verified in the coverage, while Lula and Canada’s prime minister condemned any use of force lacking U.N. Charter backing.