BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, October 23, 2024.” sizes=”(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw” width=”664″ height=”443″/> Russian President Vladimir Putin and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during an official welcoming ceremony for heads of delegation at the BRICS summit in Kazan (Russia), October 23, 2024. MAXIM SHIPENKOV / AFP
Venezuela, which aimed to join the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) during the summit in Kazan, Russia, denounced, Thursday October 24, the veto put by Brazil on its entry , castigating a ” assault “.
The Venezuelan “had the support and backing of the countries participating in this summit for the formalization of its entry”explained the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release. But “the representation of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (…) decided to maintain the veto that [l’ancien président brésilien de droite Jair] Bolsonaro has applied to Venezuela for years, thus reproducing the hatred, exclusion and intolerance promoted by Western centers of power to prevent, for the moment, the entry of Venezuela” in the BRICS, he denounced.
It is “an action which constitutes aggression against Venezuela and a hostile gesture (…). The Venezuelan people feel indignation and shame at this inexplicable and immoral aggression by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which maintains the worst of Jair Bolsonaro’s policies against the Bolivarian Revolution.further castigated the ministry.
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Relations between Brasilia and Caracas have become strained in recent weeks after the contested re-election in July of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, where the opposition claims fraud and claims victory. The two countries broke off relations in 2019 during the Bolsonaro years (2019-2022), but diplomatic relations resumed in early 2023 with the return to power of left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The latter, who tried to be a mediator in the Venezuelan political crisis, proposing in vain a new election, has still not recognized the re-election of Mr. Maduro. He demands, like the Venezuelan opposition, the publication of the minutes of the polling stations.
Worsening relations between the two countries
Asked about the dispute between Brasilia and Caracas in Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin, a close ally of Mr. Maduro, said “hope the situation gets resolved”insisting however on the fact that a consensus was essential for a new country to be admitted to BRICS. “Venezuela is fighting for its independence, for its sovereignty. We consider that President Maduro won the elections and won them honestly. And we wish him success”added Mr. Putin.
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Caught in an endless economic crisis worsened by American sanctions, imposed due to the “repression” of the opposition, Venezuela had been seeking for months to integrate the BRICS, with Mr. Maduro tirelessly repeating his attachment to a “multipolar world” and his hostility to Washington. The National Electoral Council, considered to be under the orders of those in power, declared Mr. Maduro the winner of the presidential election, without however giving the details of the votes. The institution says it has been the victim of a computer hack.
The relationship between Caracas and Brasilia further deteriorated in September, when Venezuela revoked the authorization given to Brazil to represent Argentina in the country, and in particular to manage the embassy residence where six executives of the Venezuelan opposition since March. Brasilia, who had managed the residence since August and the breakdown of diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Argentina, had recalled to Caracas “the inviolability of the installations of the Argentine diplomatic mission”then surrounded by the police.
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