{"id":5711,"date":"2022-12-19T00:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2022-12-19T00:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:13:39","slug":"brazil-to-resume-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela-under-lula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2022\/12\/19\/brazil-to-resume-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela-under-lula\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/12\/14\/brazil-to-resume-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela-under-lula\">Brazil to resume diplomatic relations with Venezuela under Lula<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Article: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/12\/14\/brazil-to-resume-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela-under-lula <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil is poised to thaw a chilly relationship with its neighboring country Venezuela at the start of the new year, reports incoming Brazilian foreign minister Mauro Vieira. This shift will come with the beginning of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s term as president of Brazil starting January 1st and his new leftist approach to policy including foreign affairs. The relations between Venezuela and Brazil became rocky in 2020 when the current Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, signed a decree banning the current Venezulean President, Nicolas Maduro, and his cabinet from entering the country. Bolsonaro also recognized Maduro\u2019s opposition, Juan Guaido, as president after the 2018 election in Venezuela that was highly disputed. Many labeled Maduro\u2019s victory as fraudulent, including the United States, Brazil, and over 50 other countries. Although the tension surrounding the election did not end up bubbling over completely, Brazil\u2019s stance still placed a very heavy strain on their relationship with Venezuela. Now, however, the incoming President Lula is planning on placing an embassy near Maduro\u2019s government in Venezuela and formally recognizing him and his cabinet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This situation will obviously change the relationship between two influential countries in latin america as it progresses, and it will no doubt change the way the country operates as a whole and the tensions between governments. This incident between Brazil and Venezuela also reflects some occurrences on the larger continental scale. Across the board in South America, right wing politicians, such as President Bolsonaro, are being voted out in favor of left wing politicians, such as incoming president Lula. As this is happening, the relationships that Venezuela has with nations in the region are changing as leftist candidates are being voted in, and these politicians are backpedaling on their predecessors\u2019 reaction to the suspect election in 2018. Although many of these nations voted in favor of Maduro\u2019s opposition in the past, they are now following Brazil\u2019s lead in attempting to rebuild those relations and show friendliness again. For all the positive diplomatic interactions being made between Venezuela, Brazil, and other nations, there are still hurdles to overcome before allies are solidified, as is represented in Lula\u2019s current pursuit of clearing Maduro and his cabinet for access to Brazil to attend his inauguration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In International Relations we have discussed the idea that a country always acts in their national interest, especially according to realist theory. This concept makes me wonder why multiple nations in South America concerned themselves with Venezuela\u2019s 2018 election, and even went as far as recognizing Juan Guaido, the loser of the election, as president of the country. Perhaps it was to call out a potential fraudulence in voting, or because Guaido could offer more to the continent as a whole as president, but in any case the rhetoric has shifted and now efforts have been made to appease Maduro. This is probably reflective of, again, the shift in political views occurring across the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/12\/14\/brazil-to-resume-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela-under-lula Brazil is poised to thaw a chilly relationship with its neighboring country Venezuela at the start of the new year, reports incoming Brazilian foreign minister Mauro Vieira. This shift will come with the beginning of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s term as president of Brazil starting January 1st and his new leftist approach to policy including foreign affairs&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2022\/12\/19\/brazil-to-resume-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela-under-lula\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}