Maduro’s BRICS Invite Slips Away as Bloc Plans Another Expansion
- Venezuela left off preliminary list circulating among members
- Brazil uncomfortable with invite in wake of election dispute
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Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela is not included on a list of prospective invitees to the BRICS bloc of emerging market countries that has circulated among the group’s members at the United Nations this week, according to three Brazilian officials familiar with the situation.
Maduro has chased a BRICS invite as the group plans another expansion after adding four members to its core roster of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in January, in hopes of using it to bolster Venezuela’s legitimacy globally.