Brazil to Support the Entry of Venezuela to the BRICS

“It is incredible and inexplicable that one country (the United States) imposes 900 sanctions on another country (Venezuela) just because they don’t like it,” Lula stressed.

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During the press conference held after a private meeting, Lula announced that he supports the admission of Venezuela to the BRICS, an international cooperation forum that includes the world’s largest emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

The Brazilian president also recalled that he criticized the European and American rulers who recognized the opposition politician Juan Guaido as “president in charge of Venezuela.”

Such a recognition was the consequence of a geopolitical “narrative” deliberately built against the South American country and its legitimate government.

“President Maduro returns to Brazil after 8 years. I have fought with the U.S. For me, it was so absurd that people who defend democracy turn their backs on an elected person with his people. The prejudice against Venezuela is very great.”

“Now, it is in your hands that Venezuela make its own narrative and go back to being a sovereign country where only its people, through a free vote, decide who should govern. Then our adversaries will have to apologize for the havoc they have caused done,” Lula told Maduro.