Nicolás Maduro speaks on television. Photo: Archive.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, confirmed that the country belongs “by nature” to the new multipolar world that has already been born and that, in his words, “we helped create.” Similarly, he condemned the last-minute veto made by a Brazilian official of Venezuela’s entry into BRICS.
In the 64th edition of his program Con Maduro +, the president said that before the start of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, “of the 10 full members, we had guaranteed the vote of nine members,” but the work carried out by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and Foreign Minister Yván Gil had already ensured Brazil’s vote.
He commented that the vice president and the foreign minister “had previous conversations and said that they would not veto Venezuela… Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira told me to my face that Brazil would not veto Venezuela… There were meetings between that foreign minister and the one from Russia, and he clearly stated that he would not veto Venezuela.” However, near the end of the summit, things changed.
“When the final list was provided, an official with a sad Bolsonarist past (Eduardo Paes Saboia) appeared—and was highly criticized in Brazil—and stated directly that Brazil vetoes Venezuela and exercised an immoral veto power that violated the agreements of Celac, Mercosur, the BRICS,” said the president.
He confessed that this decision by Brazil “created a huge noise among all the countries that support Venezuela in BRICS… It was a stab in the back by a Bolsonarist, fascist official,” he said.
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President Maduro commented that Venezuela’s entry into BRICS was planned during the Johannesburg Summit in 2023, but the pressures from the Itamaratí [Itamaraty Palace, also known as the Palace of the Arches—the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil] took advantage of the absence of the Venezuelan president at that meeting for health reasons to prevent the country’s entry into the bloc.
In this regard, he said that Itamaratí has a long list of anti-Venezuelan actions which date back to the independence era and continued during the Bolivarian Revolution. “Commander Chávez said that Brazil is the only country governed by a building: Itamaratí,” he said.
“It is a very anti-Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, closely linked to the United States State Department… There is no official there who does not have ties to the State Department… Itamaratí always conspired against Venezuela, from Mercosur, it was the promoter of the illegal exclusion of Venezuela from Mercosur,” said President Maduro.
Since that time, he continued, there has been “a long history of conspiracy against the country, and at this moment, it has been expressed again. They expressed themselves in the same terms as Jair Bolsonaro to prevent us from approaching BRICS.”
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Venezuela will not be silenced
“The birth of a new world is inevitable, it has already been born. It is stupid to believe that Venezuela’s right to belong to this new world can be vetoed,” said President Maduro in relation to the veto that, for now, limited Venezuela’s access to BRICS.
He recalled that Commander Hugo Chávez “was the first person I heard talk about the multipolar world in 1997. We were designing the path to go down the electoral route, and in the first government program that was built, there was the proposal to build a multipolar world. In 2006, Commander Chávez proposed turning towards a multipolar world.”
“It is natural for us to be invited to the BRICS summit. I was invited by the leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin,” recalled President Maduro. During the summit, noted the president, he met with more than 20 leaders of countries such as Russia, China, India, Iran, Belarus, Ethiopia, Palestine, Turkey, Vietnam, South Africa, Mauritania, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.
“We belong to that world,” said the president. “With these hands, we have helped build that world that already exists. Nobody vetoes Venezuela, and those who try to silence Venezuela will dry up, as they have already done.”
President Maduro recalled that at the end of the BRICS summit, when saying goodbye to President Putin, the president of the BRICS Bank, Dilma Rousseff, was there and embraced him. A little further to the side was the Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira “and he saw me face to face, he almost fainted… And I told him: you vetoed Venezuela and, frightened, he said ‘no, president,’ and left.”
Regarding the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, he said that “I prefer to be cautious and wait. They will criticize me and tell me that I am innocent, good people. I prefer to wait for Lula to be better informed about the events.”
(Últimas Noticias) by Randolf Borges
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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