Crisis in Brazil: Petro requested an urgent OAS meeting

The Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, requested, this Sunday, January 8, an urgent meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) to meet the intent of “blowin Brazil, where followers of ex-president Jair Bolsonario invaded the headquarters of the Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court in Brasilia.

(See: Radical supporters of Bolsonaro invaded the Brazilian Presidency).

“All my solidarity to Lula and the people of Brazil. Fascism decides to strike. The rights have not been able to maintain the pact of non-violence. It is urgent time for an OAS meeting, if you want to continue to live as an institution and apply the Democratic Charter“Petro said in a message posted on Twitter.

The Colombian president added that he proposed that “the Inter-American Human Rights System be strengthened by applying current regulations and expanding the charter to women’s, environmental and collective rights“.

However, Petro noted that the response to that proposal is “parliamentary coups or far-right violent coups“, also referring to what happened on December 7 in Peru, when the then president Pedro Castillo He was removed by Congress after attempting a coup.

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Hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters who are unaware of Lula’s victory in the elections last October, who took power on January 1, marched through Brasilia this Sunday and invaded the headquarters of Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court.

According to videos circulating on social networks, the radicals, who in recent months have demanded a “intervention“military that prevented the inauguration of Lula, they have caused damage of various kinds inside those buildings of the branches of power.

Lula was not in Brasilia this Sunday, as he was on a visit to the state of Sao Paulo, from where he said that the “fascist hooligans“that invaded the government headquarters”they will be found and punished“.

Too, decreed federal intervention in the security area of ​​Brasilia, after the chaos caused by thousands of Bolsonaro supporters.

Bolsonaro, retired army captain and nostalgic for the military dictatorship (1964-1985), is currently in the United States, where he traveled two days before Lula’s inauguration without an official return plan.

EFE