The presidents of Brazil and Venezuela met Monday in Brasilia to seal the normalization of their relations after years of hostility. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared that "relations between the two countries have fully resumed," and affirmed that in Venezuela "there is democracy" Lula described the accusations of dictatorship in the country as "narratives" "Maduro knows the narrative they built against Venezuela for so long," the Brazilian president said, recalling the campaign of former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim.