Venezuela accuses Brazil of ‘aggression’ for vetoing entry into Brics

In the text, the country pointed out that it is not just the largest energy reserve in the world. They indicated that they also have a “flag of values, principles and vision for building a fair, multicentric and pluripolar world”, and highlighted that they had the support and support of other countries at the summit to formalize their entry into the bloc. In addition to Venezuela, Nicaragua was excluded from the preliminary list that defines candidate countries for partners in the bloc.

Venezuela stated that Brazil’s decision “contradicts the nature and postulate of the BRICS”. The statement highlighted that the measure maintains the veto that former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) applied to the country “for years”. Quoting by name the representative of the Brazilian chancellery at the meeting, in the figure of ambassador Eduardo Paes Saboia, the country accused the veto of reproducing “the hatred, exclusion and intolerance promoted from the centers of Western power to prevent, for the time being, the entry of Bolívar’s Homeland in the organization”.

(…) (The Brazilian decision) constitutes an aggression against Venezuela and a hostile gesture that adds to the criminal policy of sanctions imposed against a courageous and revolutionary people, such as the Venezuelan people. Venezuela graces the global South and East with its firmness in defending the self-determination and sovereign equality of States. No stratagem or maneuver conceived against Venezuela will interrupt the course of history. A new world is born! Venezuela is part of this free world without hegemonism.
Statement from Venezuela

At the end of the text, the country once again pointed out that the Venezuelan people “feel indignation and shame with this inexplicable and immoral aggression by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty)”. They further accused the Brazilian government of “maintaining the worst of Jair Bolsonaro’s policies against the Bolivarian Revolution founded by Commander Hugo Chávez”.

The country further declared that the summit was a “resounding success”. “We congratulate President Putin and his government for their extraordinary contributions, in the words of El Libertador Simón Bolívar, to universal balance.”

In a press interview at the summit, Maduro said that Venezuela “has been in the BRICS for two hundred years.” In a video shared by his party, the president presents himself to Venezuelan public opinion as part of the bloc and mentions “superpowers” such as China, India and Russia, and emerging powers such as Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He does not mention Brazil in the statement.