CARACAS — Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro offered Venezuela’s vast oil reserves to the BRICS economic and security bloc on Thursday, hoping to entice the China-led coalition to eventually accept the rogue socialist nation in the group.
The China-led coalition and its members – Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa – gathered this week in Johannesburg, South Africa, to celebrate its 15th summit. The socialist Maduro regime has been unsuccessfully attempting to convince BRICS to accept Venezuela as a member nation since as early as 2015.
The Venezuelan regime once again made a bid to join the coalition this year alongside 21 other applicants — of which only six were admitted: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The six newly admitted countries will become formal members of BRICS on January 1, 2024. The Coalition, named…