Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he is waiting for his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to personally explain why Brazil has vetoed the Caribbean country’s entry into the BRICS bloc of developing countries, as expressed during the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.
“I prefer to wait for Lula to inform himself thoroughly about events and, in his role as head of state, choose the right moment to say what he thinks is appropriate,” Maduro said according to NOVA.
Avoiding accusing Lula, Maduro pointed the finger at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, calling it “has been a power within a power in Brazil for many years”. that has always conspired against Venezuela because it is directly linked to the US State Department, ever since the coup against João Goulart.
The Brazilian veto followed Brasilia’s progressive distancing from the Venezuelan president since his controversial re-election – proclaimed without providing evidence – last July.
The decision to veto was motivated by the special advisor for foreign policy of the Presidency of the Republic, Celso Amorim, by the “breach of trust” by Caracas which, after having promised to deliver the minutes of the polls, necessary according to the Brazilian government to prove Maduro’s re-election, had not done so.
