U.S. Vice President Ends Visit to Brazil in Manaus
Brasilia – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will end his two-day visit to Brazil today in the Amazonian city of Manaus, a trip that shows the weight of Washington’s interventionism in Latin America.
In Manaus, Pence will visit the shelter of Venezuelan migrants, in what the website Vermelho, run by the Communist Party of Brazil, has described as an effort to ‘show the world’ the need to intervene in that country due to the failure in containing the flow of its citizens.
Most of those migrants are victims of the tough economic sanctions imposed by Washington on Caracas due to political reasons, said the website, which recalled that before kicking off the tour that will also take him to Ecuador and Guatemala, Pence said that he would work with the allies to exert pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
The U.S. vice president’s visit started here on Tuesday with a meeting with Brazilian President Michel Temer, who described the gathering as very productive.
Temer told reporters that it is time to advance in the relationship with the United States, a country with which Brazil maintains ‘historic, dynamic and mature’ ties.
He added that over the past few months they have worked together with the Brazilian Congress to approve two new agreements with the United States in the field of defense, another deal on the peaceful use of outer space, and one on ‘open skies’, which was approved on Tuesday.
In addition, we established mechanisms of dialogue on the defense industry, inaugurated the Permanent Forum on Public Security, and we want to cooperate more in the fight against organized crime,’ he added.
According to Temer, they discussed the situation of 49 Brazilian minors who have been separated from their parents in the United States as a result of the anti-immigrant policy implemented by President Donald Trump; which was strongly condemned by demonstrators at the Three Powers Square, while the meeting was taking place.
However, the Brazilian president avoided criticizing the U.S. migration policy, according to the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.
