{"id":24007,"date":"2019-05-09T10:47:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=24007"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T02:47:57","slug":"brazilian-fm-ernesto-araujo-forecasts-peaceful-change-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=24007","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian FM Ernesto Araujo forecasts peaceful change in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brazilian-FM-forecasts-peaceful-change-in-Venezuela.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brazilian-FM-forecasts-peaceful-change-in-Venezuela.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ROME, May 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo forecast a peaceful change of government in neighbouring Venezuela while ruling out a military option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A supporter of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, Araujo said he hoped efforts to get Venezuelan military units to back Guaido would bear fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is a movement, a dynamic. It\u2019s perhaps longer than we would like but it is solid,\u201d Araujo said at the beginning of a European tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Guaido had not failed in his bid to overthrow Pres Nicolas Maduro, saying a \u201ccrack\u201d has been opened that could bring down the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Araujo began his European visit in Rome with a message of reassurance for leaders wary of Bolsonaro\u2019s diplomatic and environmental intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Araujo said that dire forecasts of a spike in violence following Bolsonaro\u2019s victory had proved wrong, and that the murder rate had fallen by 25 percent since the president took office on Jan 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign minister also sought to present Brazil as a country that respected its unique environment, that was fighting against deforestation and promoting \u201ca modern agriculture that does not occupy tropical forest zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign minister said Brazil had no intention of reneging on its commitment to the Paris climate agreement even though the government felt it contained protectionist measures with respect to the country\u2019s agricultural sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Italy, Araujo is to visit Poland and Hungary, all countries with governments that share rightwing political ideologies with the current regime in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Rome he met with Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, head of the far-right League that is the dominant partner in a ruling coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S). &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, May 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo forecast a peaceful change of government in neighbouring Venezuela while ruling out a military option. A supporter of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, Araujo said he hoped efforts to get Venezuelan military units to back Guaido would bear fruit. \u201cThere is a movement, a dynamic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}