The dictatorships of Nicaragua and Venezuela were vetoed from being part of the BRICS after Brazil (one of the main members) opposed the entry of the regimes of Daniel Ortega and Nicolás Maduro to whom President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has already made his rejection clear.
According to the Brazilian media TV Globo, Lula’s government exerted pressure on member countries, including Russiaso that Nicaragua and Venezuela were not included in the list. Although the veto was not formal, according to sources, Putin’s government is aware of the friction between Lula and the dictators Ortega and Maduro, whom it has condemned and accused of dictatorial regimes.
The newly appointed chancellor attended for Nicaragua Valdrack Jaentschkewho gathered a delegation in Russia tried to convince the founding members of the BRICS to incorporate Managua into the economic and political bloc; However, their efforts were in vain, since Nicaragua was not taken into account among the countries aspiring to be part of the bloc led by Russia.
According to Nicaraguan opponents, Ortega was trying to be part of the BRICS to access loans from its bank and finance projects of the dictatorship that until now is sanctioned by the United States and the European bloc, so it does not have access to loan financing in dollarized international banks.
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Nicolás Maduro, who made his first trip after the electoral fraud mounted in Venezuela, met with some member countries; However, he was not received by the delegation representing Lula, led by his advisor Celso Amorín. Lula canceled his attendance at the summit in Russia due to a domestic accident.
«You have to have a strategic conception of admissions. Remember that the world is experiencing wars with the potential to become world wars. So the admission criteria are more important than the country itself,” said Amorín, justifying the rejection to which the Nicaraguan and Venezuelan regimes were subjected.
Ortega and Lula starred in a show of “bickering” after the Sandinista dictator broke diplomatic relations with Brazil last August after the Brazilian ambassador did not attend the July 19 celebration. Ortega called Lula “dragged” from the empire, to which his counterpart responded by expelling the Nicaraguan ambassador in Brasilia.
The BRICS (acronym for the founding member countries) are made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The economic bloc arises as a parallel to the G7 and is made up of countries with emerging economies, and they have been joined by Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Among the countries that aspired to be part of the list, in addition to Nicaragua and Venezuela, there were Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Neither the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, nor the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Valdrack Jaentschke, participated in the official meeting and much less were they invited to the official photograph of the event and clearly Brazil’s opinion within the bloc is more important than the servility it presents. Ortega and Maduro before the regimes of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
