© Getty ImagesVenezuela's Nicolás Maduro was welcomed as a guest by Vladimir Putin
Venezuela's foreign ministry described the move, which came at the group's summit in Russia attended by more than 20 heads of state, as an "immoral aggression".
Relations between the two left-wing governments have worsened since July's contested presidential election in Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro said he had secured re-election, despite evidence that the opposition's Edmundo González won by a landslide.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva initially supported Maduro, but eventually said he would not accept the official results until a breakdown of the vote was released.
Multiple foreign governments have said they believe the opposition won the election in Venezuela, but stopped short of recognising González as the president.
The Venezuelan foreign ministry said in a statement:
"The Brazilian foreign ministry has decided to maintain the veto that [former Brazilian president] Jair Bolsonaro has applied against Venezuela for years, reproducing the hatred, exclusion and intolerance promoted from the centres of power in the West. The Venezuelan people feel indignation and shame at this inexplicable and immoral aggression."Venezuela had lobbied hard to join the Brics, with Maduro even making a surprise appearance at the summit in the city of Kazan and declaring that his country was "part of the Brics family".
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hosted the summit, said he agreed with Venezuela's position, but added that it would only be able to join the Brics if there was a consensus in favour among its members.
Putin, at a news conference on Thursday, said: "
We know Brazil's position. We don't agree, Venezuela is fighting for its survival."He said he discussed the issue with Lula when they spoke on the phone this week. Lula was scheduled to travel to Russia for the summit, but cancelled the trip after injuring his head in an accident at home on Saturday.
Putin added that he would work to help the two South American neighbours mend relations.
The Brics began as a grouping that unites Brazil with Russia, India, China and South Africa. Last year, however, the original members agreed to admit a number of new joiners, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Lula is a passionate advocate of the Brics as a means of reforming global governance and giving a greater voice to the developing world. He has criticised the "paralysis" of global institutions, while praising the expansion of the Brics as strengthening the fight for more diverse perspectives.
But other observers retort that the Brics are themselves paralysed by their own internal contradictions, with Russia at war in Ukraine, while China and India have their own mutual squabbles.
The latest Brics summit in Kazan was seen as an opportunity for President Putin to demonstrate that attempts to isolate Russia over its invasion of Ukraine had failed.
But in his attempts to strengthen the grouping as a counterweight to the Western-led world, he has also exposed other divisions, leaving relations between Brasília and Caracas at their lowest ebb since Lula's re-election two years ago.
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They are all corrupt there on that whole continent.
It’s just a matter of what they get away with & not get caught by the blowback or snitch that gets caught.
Nothing‘s changed. He who is put in & has the power makes the rules that his Vatican & Banking masters tell him.
(list by William Blum)
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
(* indicates successful ouster of a government)
(** indicates South & Central America + Caribbean)
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
** Guatemala 1954 *
** Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
** British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
** Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
** Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
** Cuba 1959 to present
** Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
** Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
** Costa Rica 1970-71
** Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
** Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
** Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
** Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
** Nicaragua 1981-90 *
** Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
** Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
** Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
** Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
** Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
It’s amazing how well the Mass Psychosis Hypnosis works.
Later upon layer, cycle after cycle, truth be told after truth be told.
The bbc mind you. That wants to convince me that bricks did nothing to the west but show its division.
comical clown world this morning
To add;
It appears that the actual driving force of BRICS will be known as “RIC” (Russia - India - China).
Iran may be added & thought of as a bigger broader power after Satan gets defeated in the ME. If Iran becomes a bigger part then it will be known as “RIIC”.
This was also known in geopolical circles as the Primakov Triangle. Russian politician Primakov suggested that Russia as a Super Power status needed to counteract the Zionist U.S. NAZI/NATO Empire by joining forces with China & India.
No surprises to me really but it appears that will be the tour de force behind BRICS & its new investment projects & development opportunities as the US/Israhell/EU & wane into the sunset.