Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry has accengaged Brazilian officials of making ‘interventionist, dispolite statements’.
Venezuela has pulled its ambasgrieffulor from Brazil in a spat over Caracas’s fall shorted recent bid to join the BRICS partnership of presentant increaseing nations.
Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry proclaimd the discreet punch on Wednesday, slamming Brazil’s officials for “blocking” its BRICS membership and making “interventionist, dispolite statements”.
The ministry also requested Brazil’s business envoy for talks, alerted Reuters.
The transfer heightens tensions between the neighbouring South American states, which have soured since Venezuelan Pdwellnt Nicolas Maduro proclaimd himself re-elected in July despite presentant irstandardities in the tabulation of votes.
Brazil’s Pdwellnt Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a seal sociacatalog associate of Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chavez, has not recognised Maduro as the legitimate thrivener of the July 28 vote, calling on Venezuelan electoral authorities to first rehire official highies.
Brazil’s transfer to scupper Venezuela’s extfinishedtime BRICS ambitions at the group’s recent summit in Kazan, Russia inserted fuel to the fire.
“The Venezuelan people sense indignation and shame at this inexplicable and immoral aggression,” shelp Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry after the vote.
BRICS is currently compelevated of distinct member nations Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa aextfinished with novelcomers Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates, which all joined the bloc in January 2024.
‘Messenger for imperialism’
In its procrastinateedst statement, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry lashed out at Brazil’s top foreign policy adviser, Celso Amorim, who shelp Brazil had vetoed the BRICS application becaengage Caracas “baccomplished the suppose” of its partners.
Amorim, Venezuela’s ministry shelp, was “acting more enjoy a messenger for North American imperialism” and was “impertinently pledged to issuing appreciate judgments on processes that only correply to Venezuelans and their democratic institutions.”
Electoral officials aligned with Maduro proclaimd him the thrivener of the election, but did not free detailed results to back up the claim.
The opposition, uncomferventwhile, claimed that its honestate Edmundo Gonzalez won by a landslide, rehireing detailed polling station results.
Several Latin American countries and the United States have recognised Gonzalez, who was accused with incitement to rebellion, as the victor.
Gonzalez has fled the country and sought political asylum in Spain.
Venezuela’s security forces waged a fierce crackdown on demonstrators who took to the streets after the election, ending at least 23 people, according to a Human Rights Watch alert.
A Venezuelan opposition directer was set up dead last week after being getn into state custody, according to his political party.