BRASILIA (Reuters) -The presidents of Brazil and Colombia will discuss options for negotiating an end to the Venezuelan crisis in a phone call on Wednesday, two sources involved in the talks told Reuters.
The phone call involving Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro was decided after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pulled out of a three-way presidential initiative on Venezuela’s contested election, the sources said.
Brazil and Colombia have coordinated their diplomatic efforts to resolve the Venezuelan crisis, that arose from the July 28 election that both Venezuela’s government and its opposition claim to have won.
Lula and Petro have called for the release of detailed voting tallies by Venezuelan authorities.
Mexico’s Amlo said on Tuesday he would not participate for now in conversations with Brazil and Colombia and would wait for a review that Venezuela’s Supreme Court will conduct of the election.
Lula and Petro decided to continue with the talks after they were informed of the Mexican president’s withdrawal, said one of the Brazilian officials, who asked not to be named to be able to speak freely.
The Brazilian and Colombian presidents plan to arrange a telephone conversation Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and with opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, the sources said.
Neither Brazil nor Colombia plan to recognize the election result or Maduro’s victory until the vote tallies are published fully, the Brazilian sources said.
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by Kylie Madry and David Holmes)
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