Lula da Silva’s (PT, progressive-globalist) team communicated to Itamaraty members that “all countries with which Brazil maintains diplomatic relations” should be invited to the inauguration – which includes Venezuela.
The information is from the newspaper O Estadão.
The invitation and the coming of Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro run into a measure of the Bolsonaro government, which prevents his entry into the country.
The Interministerial Ordinance number 7 of 2019, signed by the then ministers of Justice, Sergio Moro, and Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo, “prevents the entry into the country of high officials of the Venezuelan regime, who, by their actions, go against principles and objectives of the Federal Constitution, attacking democracy, the dignity of the human person and the prevalence of human rights.”
The Venezuelan dictator is part of the list drawn up by Itamaraty based on the ordinance.
The text is based on articles from the Constitution, resolutions from the OAS, to which Brazil has adhered, resolutions from the UN Human Rights Council, and declarations from the Lima Group.
For this reason, members of the government transition of the Foreign Relations group and the organization of the Inauguration Ceremony are studying how to make it possible for the Chavista to come.
They evaluate that president Jair Bolsonaro would not comply with a request to revoke the ordinance and that the case would be exploited politically against Lula da Silva.