00:00We are going right away to Brazil.
00:02Our correspondent in the country, Brian Meir,
00:04has more information regarding these circumstances in Venezuela.
00:08Let's listen.
00:10Across Brazil today, political parties, politicians and civil society organizations
00:16and social movements are expressing outrage over the U.S. government's kidnapping
00:21of democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro
00:24and the missile attacks made on four facilities in Venezuela.
00:28Shortly after Brazil's foreign relations minister, Mauro Vieira,
00:33held a telephone conversation with his Venezuelan counterpart, Ivan Gill,
00:38President Lula issued a statement saying that attacking countries
00:42in flagrant violation of international law is the first step toward a world of violence,
00:47chaos and instability where the law of the strongest prevails over multilateralism.
00:53Afterwards, the Workers' Party itself delivered an even stronger worded statement
00:59saying the Brazilian Workers' Party vehemently condemns the military aggression
01:04by the United States of America against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its people.
01:09Given the disclosed facts, this act is characterized as a kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro
01:15and the First Lady, Brazil's largest social movements like the landless rural workers movement,
01:21the MST, the Central de Movimentos Populares and União Nacional do Morro de Popular,
01:28the National People's Housing Movement, which is the largest housing movement in Brazil,
01:31which has a long relationship with Venezuelan housing movements,
01:34have all also expressed their repudiation at the violent act of aggression
01:39by the United States government towards Venezuela.
01:42Now, various protests are being planned across the country.
01:46Normally, the way that the social movements work is they spend a few days planning,
01:49but there should be some pretty big protests happening in the next couple of days across Brazil,
01:55just as they're happening around the world today
01:58as a result of the violent act of imperialist aggression
02:01against the Venezuelan government and its people.
02:04So, I'll see you in the next couple of days.
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