“We condemn in the clearest and most energetic way this mobilization of a fascist and coup nature that has threatened the three powers of the State in Brazil” and that “does not constitute an isolated event”affirmed the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, as reported by the AFP agency.
“Brazil has a firm commitment to democracy and the rule of law and rejects any form of anti-democratic extremism and political violence,” said the Brazilian ambassador to the OAS, Otavio Brandelli, during an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council, its executive body, to analyze the riots last Sunday in this country.
That day a mob of supporters of the extreme right-wing former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the headquarters of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Courtwhere they committed acts of vandalism.
Those responsible for these violent actions “will be identified and treated with the rigor of the law, within due legal process,” added the ambassador.
The State and its democratic institutions “will provide responses commensurate with the seriousness of the crimes committed,” said Brandelli, who insisted that the country held “free and democratic” elections that earned praise from the international community.
The inauguration of the leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva it was a celebration of democracy, he said, with the presence of more than 60 international delegations, and represented a “recognition of the solidity of Brazilian democratic institutions.”
A statement praised by the many countries that immediately took the floor to express their solidarity with Brazil.
The Honduran ambassador to the organization, Carlos Roberto Quesada, warned that “something that is happening today in Brazil we do not know where it will be replicated” because “this is already becoming a bad habit,” and called on the presidents of Latin America to move to Brazil “if necessary to defend democracy.
Suriname proposed that the OAS continue to monitor the post-electoral situation and some countries such as Colombia and Argentina called on the organization to innovate and reflect internally “if it wants to continue in force.”
Source: Ambito
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