00:00Made ongoing military threats from the United States government against Venezuela,
00:04Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva warned of the potential consequences
00:08of a foreign intervention would bring to the Latin American region.
00:16Building a prosperous and peaceful South America is the only doctrine that suits us.
00:23Here, they argue that advancing integration means renouncing sovereignty,
00:27but the real threats to our sovereignty are not of a different nature. Today,
00:32they present themselves in the form of war, anti-democratic forces, and organized crime.
00:39More than for decades after the Malvinas War, the South American continent is once again fearful
00:45of the military presence of an extra-regional power. The limits of international law are being tested.
00:52Armed intervention in Venezuela would be a humanitarian catastrophe for the hemisphere
00:57and a dangerous precedent for the world.
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