The attorney general of VenezuelaTarek Saab, criticized the presidents of Brazil and Chile, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) e Gabriel Boricstating that they are “spokespeople for the CIA”, the central intelligence agency of the United States government.
In an interview with the channel Globovision on Sunday 13, Saab, a first-class ally of the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Madurostated that Brazilian and Chilean leaders have moved away from left-wing ideals.
“Lula is not the same person who founded the PT and spoke to the workers’ movements in Brazil. He’s not the same person who ran for president several times and didn’t win,” he said. “Lula has not been the same since he left prison. It’s not the same at all: not physically, not in the way it expresses itself.”
The prosecutor recalled the good relationship between Lula and Hugo Chavezwho presided over Venezuela between 1999 and 2013, the year of his death. During Brazil’s first two presidential terms, between 2003 and 2010, they were important allies.
Lula and Chávez allowed the birth of “a new, humanist, nationalist left in Latin America. Truly left-wing”, said Saab, citing other political leaders, such as Rafael Correain Ecuador; and Nestor e Cristina Kirchnerto Argentina.
Irritated, Saab criticized the Brazilian leader for the positions adopted in relation to the Venezuelan election in July this year. Lula joined the voices that called for release of electoral records that would prove Maduro’s victory.
“You won (the Brazilian elections), Lula, because an electoral court determined your victory. The same happened in Venezuela,” he barked. “Who are you, Boric, who are you, Lula, to meddle in Venezuela’s affairs?”
“Look at Boric. Boric is left-wing and is attacking Venezuela. Boric is a CIA agent, proven. He betrayed the youth who fought (former Chilean president Sebastián) Piñera”, he stated, citing “hundreds of deaths” and “500 injured people who lost their sight among thousands of injured people” in the protests that took to the streets of Chile between 2019 and 2020.
