{"id":2869,"date":"2023-05-30T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:54:14","slug":"venezuela-wants-to-join-brics-brazil-supports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=2869","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela wants to join BRICS, Brazil supports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday his country is interested in joining the BRICS, an association of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are asked whether Venezuela wants to be part of the BRICS in the future, yes, we want to be a humble part of the BRICS and keep pace with the changing geopolitical situation,&#8221; Maduro said at a joint news conference with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maduro, the group may help consolidate South American nations, as it is like a magnet and &#8220;attracts states, which seek peace and cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 30 countries have already applied for the BRICS membership,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lula da Silva, in turn, said he would support Venezuela&#8217;s bid adding he hoped that BRICS member states would someday emerge with their own common currency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dream is that we have a common currency so that our countries can do business without being dependent on the dollar,&#8221; the Brazilian president stated.<\/p>\n<p>Lula noted that this initiative should be included on the agenda of the meeting of South America&#8217;s leaders in Brasilia later on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>BRICSV, VBRICS or BRIVCS?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday his country is interested in joining the BRICS, an association of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. &#8220;If we are asked whether Venezuela wants to be part of the BRICS in the future, yes, we want to be a humble part of the BRICS and keep pace with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}