After going to Argentina, on his first trip after returning to the presidency, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) will travel to Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, Itamaraty confirmed this Friday (5).
Lula will travel to the country commanded by center-right Luis Lacalle Pou on January 25 after spending two days in Buenos Aires. Uruguay’s foreign ministry said Brazilian foreign minister Mauro Vieira and his counterpart from the neighboring country are working out the details of the trip.

Last year, before the PT took office, trips to Argentina and Uruguay have been speculated. When Vieira confirmed that Lula would travel to Buenos Aires this month, where he would meet President Alberto Fernández, one of his main allies in the region, the possibility of visiting Montevideo came back to the fore – reinforced after an official invitation made by Lacalle Pou.

In the country, Lula also has ties with former President José “Pepe” Mujica, who supported him in his campaign for the Planalto Palace and came to power at the invitation of the current director general – also former president Julio María Sanguinetti, from the right, accompanied them to Brasilia, in a multiparty entourage.

This Thursday (5), the Itamaraty also announced the return of Brazil to CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), including, among others, Argentina and Uruguay – the trip of the PT to Buenos Aires will coincide with a summit meeting of the forum.

The country had withdrawn from the collegiate in January 2020, in the second year of the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL). At the time, the former president’s leadership said the bloc had little practical effect and was made up of dictatorships, such as Venezuela and Cuba.

Created in 2010, at the end of the second Lula government, Celac is an international organization within which the countries of the region articulate without the participation of the United States and Canada.