The president of Venezuela’s National Assembly (Parliament), Jorge Rodríguez, announced today that he will ask the legislative plenary to declare Brazil’s Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, persona non grata.

«We don’t care about the compromises and conciliations he has reached with his masters in the North,» said the parliamentarian in a lengthy statement, in which he links the high-ranking official of the neighbouring country with the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan.

Rodríguez mentions in the text the telephone and personal contacts they had with Amorim before the presidential elections of 28 July and in the days leading up to the elections.

The facts, he said, «indicate that our suspicions were not so misguided» and asserted that the former Brazilian foreign minister «came on behalf of Sullivan to seek to damage the normal conduct of the presidential election in Venezuela».

In the meetings and phone calls they emphasised that right-wing extremism «would never recognise the election result» and that the fascist faction’s plan was to use the presidential elections to try to perpetrate a coup d’état in the country, he stressed.

He pointed out that as a result of these violent actions, 27 Venezuelans were murdered in less than 48 hours, and in response to the denunciation «Amorim’s response was always a long and uncomfortable silence».

Commenting on Amorim’s appearance before the Foreign Affairs Policy Committee of his country’s Chamber of Deputies, he asserted that he lied when he said that Brazil acted as guarantor of the Barbados Agreements.

He emphasised that «Venezuela has never accepted, nor will it accept, representations that allude to any kind of guardianship or «guarantee».

Referring to a meeting in the Miraflores Palace with Amorim, Rodríguez pointed out that «we are fierce and implacable in the defence of our self-determination, democracy, the Constitution and the laws, and we are also decent people who stick to the truth».

He remarked that it was clear «why he came and who sent him», and added that he behaved, in a mischievous manner, «more like an interlocutor for the US government than in the role supposedly assigned to him by President (Luiz Inácio) Lula (da Silva)».

The Bolivarian Ministry for Foreign Relations summoned the Brazilian Chargé d’Affaires in Caracas, Flávio Macieira, on Wednesday, and expressed in a statement its firm rejection of what it called «recurrent interference and rude statements by spokespersons authorised by the Brazilian government».

In reference to Amorim, he indicated that he behaved «more like a messenger of US imperialism», by impertinently engaging in «making value judgements on processes that only correspond to Venezuelans and their democratic institutions».