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Up to six former ministers of Foreign Affairs of Brazil have condemned the recent visit of the Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, to the facilities in Roraima, on the border with Venezuela, as it supposes a “spurious use of the national territory” in order to to use the country “as a platform for provocation and hostility towards a neighboring nation.”
The note has been signed, among others, by the former heads of Foreign Affairs, Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1992-1993) –who was also President of Brazil between 1995 and 2002–, Francisco Rezek (1990-1992), or more recently Aloysio Nunes (2017-2019); to support the criticism launched last Friday by the president of Congress, Rodrigo Maia, about the intentions of Pompeo’s visit.
Maia assured that Pompeo’s visit to the facilities of the so-called ‘Operation Welcome’, which receives Venezuelan migrants who arrive in Brazil through the northern border, “is an affront to the traditions of autonomy” of foreign policy. Brazilian.
In that sense, the president of Congress accused the Government of Washington of carrying out an action that was far from good diplomatic practices, since his only objective with this visit is to try to achieve the Latino vote in the next US elections on November 3.
The note issued by these senior officials has reaffirmed their support for Maia’s words and assured that the president of Congress, “as the representative of the supreme body of the popular will,” only “gave voice to the feelings of the Brazilian people.”
“We have the obligation to guarantee the stability of the borders and the peaceful and respectful coexistence with our neighbors, pillars of sovereignty and defense,” reads the note, which has also had the signatures of other senior officials of former Brazilian governments , like the former Minister of Finance Rubens Ricupero (1994-1995), who also served as ambassador to the United States and Italy.
The communiqué concludes with the petition to both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their “constitutional powers” to ensure that Brazilian foreign policy “strictly obeys in spirit and letter the principles set forth in Article 4 of the Magna Carta.” .
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