The veto responded to a “break of confidence,” according to former Chancellor Celso Amorim, Lula’s advisor.
The dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro On Monday, his Brazilian pair called,Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvato pronounce on the veto of the Brazilian government that blocked the entry of his country into the BRICS.
“I prefer to wait for Lula to watch, be well informed of the events, and he as head of state, in due course, to say what he has to say,” Maduro said.
During his weekly show on state television, the leftist ruler avoided directly holding Lula accountable and pointed to officials of Brazil’s foreign ministership for the veto at the BRICS summit last week in Kazan, Russia.
“Itamaraty has been a power within Brazil’s power for many years… He has always conspired against Venezuela,” Maduro said. “It is a foreign ministership closely linked to the U.S. State Department since the time of the coup against Joao Goulart,” he added in 1964.
Old ally of Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez, Lula has distanced the Venezuelan president since his questioned re-election on July 28, which the opposition denounced as fraudulent.
Amorim said Maduro promised his Brazilian counterpart to spread the detailed scrutiny of the elections, which the electoral authority does not yet do.
On Saturday, the Venezuelan attorney general,Tarek William SaabHe questioned a domestic accident suffered by Lula, calling him an “alibi” to justify his absence from the BRICS summit.
“I don’t give a bride on that subject. It’s up to the doctors and President Lula to talk,” Maduro said.
The BRICS bloc was founded in 2009 with four members:Brazil, China, India and Russia,as a contrast to the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and United States). South Africa joined in 2010 andEthiopia, Iran, Egypt and United Arab EmiratesThis year.
“You have to wait for results of your own efforts, never depend on anyone, whatever it is called, whoever it is… We don’t depend on Brazil at all, or anyone,” said Maduro, who predicted that he will continue to insist on Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS. “That’s us, rebels. If they tell us:‘You can’t go there,’ I’m going over there.’
This article has been translated after first appearing in Diario El Mundo