--- title: "Brazil’s Lula NOT attending this years BRICS summit as BRICS balancing act gets harder" type: "post" post_id: "7533" slug: "brazils-lula-not-attending-this-years-brics-summit-as-brics-balancing-act-gets" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/10/21/brazils-lula-not-attending-this-years-brics-summit-as-brics-balancing-act-gets/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/10/21/brazils-lula-not-attending-this-years-brics-summit-as-brics-balancing-act-gets.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/10/21/brazils-lula-not-attending-this-years-brics-summit-as-brics-balancing-act-gets.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/10/21/brazils-lula-not-attending-this-years-brics-summit-as-brics-balancing-act-gets.txt" published: "2024-10-21T14:28:07+00:00" modified: "2024-10-21T19:54:03+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "Brazil" - "China" - "India" - "US" - "Venezuala" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **I’ve voiced my concerns about Lula on previous occasions here- Due to some questionable goings on under his leadership**– **some people showed their anger and intolerance towards my opinion with open hostility.** > [Brazil Delays BRICS Presidency?](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/01/19/brazil-delays-brics-presidency/) > [Brazil’s Lula: Betraying BRICS Maduro cancels Lula meeting](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/01/25/brazils-lula-betraying-brics-maduro-cancels-lula-meeting/) > **Maduro cancelling the Lula meeting is really interesting. What might these actions suggest to us? I’d boldly state that Maduro smells a rat in Lula.** **In 2024 we saw Lula taking a pro western stance in the Venezuela elections** ##### [How to understand Brazil’s stance on Venezuela’s election](https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/how-to-understand-brazils-stance-on-venezuelas-election/) > “**the administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has decided to join Mexico and Colombia to help facilitate a dialogue between the Maduro administration and the opposition.”** **The US and friends, Canada included, were very clearly making yet another attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government in a Juan Guido 2.0 episode**. **Facilitating a dialogue with the opposition? To what end?** > [Brazil- Messianism and Lula](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/03/06/brazil-messianism-and-lula/) ##### [**Lula not attending BRICS summit– faces diplomatic challenge**](https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-faces-diplomatic-challenge-as-lula-misses-key-brics-summit/) > Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 78, faced an unforeseen setback when he suffered a head injury at his Brasilia home on Saturday. Doctors at the Sirio-Lebanese Hospital **diagnosed Lula with a contusion on his head.** ##### [**Brazil’s Lula cancelling BRICS summit**](https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/world/2024-10-21-brazils-lula-cancels-trip-to-brics-summit-in-russia-on-medical-advice) > Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Sunday he will no longer travel to Kazan, Russia, for the Brics summit **after medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights.** **Yes, I find the head contusion excuse an avoidance tactic on the part of Brazil- given the previous goings on.** ##### [BRICS Balancing Act Getting Harder](https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/brazils-brics-balancing-act-is-getting-harder/) October 21/24 > Recent developments in the BRICS grouping, however, have the potential to undermine this relatively broad consensus in Brazil vis-à-vis the benefits of membership. Until last year, **Brazil had, along with India, successfully prevented the bloc’s expansion, promoted by Beijing since 2017.** > Yet during last year’s summit in South Africa, **China ran out of patience and, with Russian support, not only pushed through expansion but also ignored Brazil’s request not to include explicitly anti-Western countries such as Iran.** **So Brazil did not want Iran to be included in the BRICS? Did Chinese diplomats at BRICS get a sense of Brazil being duplicitous?** > None of this will lead Brazil to abandon the grouping abruptly. Yet behind closed doors, it is now common to hear Brazilian diplomats express c**oncern about Brazil’s diminishing capacity to control intra-BRICS dynamics and to use the outfit to its benefits.** **Brazil wanting to control intra BRICS dynamics?** **I’m going to ignore what is being claimed about India in this America-centric article. As China and India have just signed a new border agreement, announced today! A move that could only serve to annoy Pax Americana** > [**India, China reach pact to resolve border conflict, Indian foreign minister says**](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-china-have-arrived-border-patrolling-pact-indias-top-diplomat-says-2024-10-21/) > Brazil’s leading business daily, recognized the benefits BRICS membership had produced for Brazil, **but warned that the grouping was “ceasing to be a source of opportunities and becoming a source of risk” if it became a club of largely authoritarian regimes with anti-Western positions.** > **Next year, it will be Brazil’s turn to host the BRICS Summit,** forcing the Lula government to decide whether to invite Putin, against whom the International Criminal Court, of which Brazil is a member, has issued an arrest warrant—a situation which leaves little space for fence-sitting. The time when BRICS membership had only upsides and virtually no downsides for Brazil seems to have come to an end. **Making a prediction based on present day information- `Brazil, if they host BRICS at all, will not invite Putin.`**