Lula decides not to mediate a meeting at which the presidents of Venezuela and Guyana will discuss the disputed territory

Brazilian President Lula da Silva has decided not to accept an invitation to mediate a meeting planned for next Thursday between Venezuelan Presidents Nicolas Maduro and Guyana Irfaan Ali to discuss Venezuela’s intention to annex the Essequibo territory. . Representing 70% of Guyana’s total area, Essequibo straddles the border between the two countries and is extremely rich in oil, gold, diamonds, copper, nickel and bauxite, among other riches.

The meeting between Maduro and Irfaan is planned in the small archipelago of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the country that holds the rotating presidency of Selaka, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and the agreement between the two heads decided that Lula da Silva, the leader of the South’s largest state, would mediate America. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, announcing the agreement for the meeting, said the two presidents had insisted on mediation by Lula, who helped organize the meeting through phone calls as Maduro, whose main ally in the region, as far as Irfaan is concerned.

But the Brazilian, despite a real obsession with being seen as a great international leader fighting for world peace, decided not to go, announcing that he was sending his special adviser Celso Amorim to the important meeting. Lula made this decision against the backdrop of opinion polls published last week, the indicators of which were not positive, such as the fact that 57% of Brazilians said they were disappointed with the first year of Lula’s third term, from which they expected much more, or 75%. Brazilians. % of citizens who say they do not believe in the president, while 40% never believe, and 35% believe only a few times and after a series of government defeats in Congress.