Lula speaks against foreign intervention in Latin America, in a carefully worded speech

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva slipped out of Belém on Sunday to make a brief appearance in Santa Marta, Colombia, at the summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union. 

He arrived with one message: Latin America should not be a stage for foreign military intervention. In a hall thinned of the region’s top leaders, Lula warned that “the threat of the use of military force has returned to be a part of everyday life in Latin America and the Caribbean.”