Maduro arrives in Brazil on his first official visit during Lula Da Silva’s current term in office

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro arrived this Sunday in Brazil on his first “official visit” since the beginning of the current administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.

The state-owned Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) broadcast Maduro’s arrival in Brasilia and explained that this is one more step in the “reestablishment of bilateral and diplomatic relations” between Venezuela and Brazil.

According to VTV, the Venezuelan president will also participate on May 30 in a meeting of South American presidents called by Lula Da Silva.

Maduro had not visited Brazil since 2015 when he attended the inauguration of former president Dilma Rousseff for her second term.

Relations between Brazil and Venezuela deteriorated during the mandate of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro; after the inauguration of Lula Da Silva, the relationship has been recomposing step by step.

Last Friday, the foreign ministers of Brazil, Mauro Vieira, and Venezuela held a meeting via telephone, in which they discussed “priority issues of the bilateral agenda at a time of resumption of relations between the two countries”.

On Wednesday of last week, the Brazilian president received the “credentials” of the new Venezuelan ambassador in Brasilia, Manuel Vadell.

Maduro highlighted the event as “a new starting point for consolidating the union between both brotherly peoples”.

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