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Special envoy Brian Mier comes with the latest from Caracas, Venezuela regarding the upcoming presidential elections that will be celebrated next July 28th. teleSUR

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00:00And now we are going to make a contact with our special envoy Brian Meard who is in Caracas

00:06to bring us all the latest updates on the upcoming elections in Venezuela next July

00:11the 28th.

00:12Hi Brian, what are the latest highlights from the country?

00:17Good evening.

00:18Well, already over 600 international election observers have confirmed that they're going

00:24to be in Venezuela on July 28th, five days from now, to monitor the presidential elections.

00:32These names include people from the United Nations who sent four observers here and also

00:38non-governmental organizations including some very respected ones like the Carter Center

00:44which is generally considered one of the best election monitoring organizations in the world

00:48since the 1980s.

00:51But today Brazil's President Lula announced that he's going to send his special advisor

00:57on foreign relations, Celso Amorim, one of the most powerful men or people in Brazilian

01:03politics.

01:04Amorim has been a member of every presidential government in high-level positions since the

01:111970s except for the Jair Bolsonaro administration.

01:16He's generally viewed as the third most powerful figure in the Brazilian government, in the

01:22executive branch of the government.

01:24And his coming here is a sign that Brazil's really paying attention to these elections.

01:30In May, after the Maduro administration invited Brazil's superior election court to send observers,

01:38it initially declined.

01:39But then in early June the presidency of the electoral court changed hands and last week

01:45they also announced that they're sending two observers here to monitor the elections on the 28th.

01:51So what does this all mean?

01:54Brazil has been trying to project itself as a major player in international geopolitics

02:00after four years of isolation during which Brazil almost became a pariah state under

02:06former President far-right Jair Bolsonaro who happens to be an ally of Maria Corina Machado

02:14in the far-right opposition group that's trying to take power here.

02:18It's hard to predict how Brazil's really going to act.

02:21They've been sending out a lot of mixed messages over the last few months about the Venezuelan elections.

02:27But my take on this is that after the results come in, Celso Amorim is going to push for

02:36respecting the results independently of which candidate wins.

02:41That would be in the style of his long tradition of diplomacy and in that case he would be

02:47a welcome addition to the international monitoring group of people who are coming here to monitor

02:54the elections this Sunday.

02:56Paul, thank you very much, Brian, for your remarks in the context of these key days ahead

03:04of the presidential elections.

Venezuela | Brazil Pres. Special Advisor Celso Amorim to observe elections

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