{"id":497157,"date":"2026-01-08T18:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/lula-and-petro-applaud-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:59:55","slug":"lula-and-petro-applaud-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/lula-and-petro-applaud-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Lula and Petro applaud the release of political prisoners in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/strong> – The presidents of Brazil, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro,<\/strong> celebrated this Thursday during a phone call the decision of the Venezuelan Government to release national and foreign prisoners.\n\nThe leaders, according to a statement from the Brazilian Presidency, “welcomed” the announcement made today by the leader of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, days after President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was captured during a military operation and taken to the United States.\n\nOn the other hand, the leaders expressed their “great concern with the use of force against a South American country”, which, they assured, constitutes a “violation<\/strong>” of international law and Venezuelan sovereignty.\n\nIn that sense, they stated that the situation in the country “must be resolved exclusively by peaceful means, (through) negotiation and respect for the will of the Venezuelan people.”\n\n\n

You can also read: Machado tells Petro and Lula that it is “absurd” to continue asking for records of Venezuelan elections<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nTherefore, the presidents agreed to continue “cooperating” to achieve peace in Venezuela, a country with which both nations share a long border.\n\n\n

The US intervention in Venezuela<\/h2>\n\n\nLula condemned the US intervention from the outset, considering that it crossed an “unacceptable line”, and called for a “vigorous” reaction from the United Nations.\n\nHowever, the Brazilian leader, who plans to contest the presidential elections scheduled for October, has not commented live on the Venezuelan situation, a highly politicized issue in Brazil.\n\nPetro, for his part, launched criticisms of the operation and engaged in a war of words with the US President, Donald Trump, who even raised the need for similar actions in Colombia and other Latin American countries.\n\nAfter days of tension, the Colombian and the American held their first telephone conversation on Wednesday to calm the atmosphere. \n\nYou may be interested in:\n\nJorge Rodr\u00edguez announced this Thursday the “release” of “a significant number of people”, including Venezuelans and foreigners -without specifying the number or conditions-, as a “unilateral gesture” to “consolidate peace and peaceful coexistence in the country”. \n\nThe announcement of the releases <\/a> comes after the US President, Donald Trump<\/strong>, announced on Tuesday the supposed closure of a “torture chamber” in Caracas, amid the pressure exerted on the government of the now acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, after the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, by US troops.\u00a0","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo. – The presidents of Brazil, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, celebrated this Thursday during a phone call the decision of the Venezuelan Government to release national and foreign prisoners. The leaders, according to a statement from the Brazilian Presidency, “welcomed” the announcement made today by the leader of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25kF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}