Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized the United States' military presence in the Caribbean during a virtual BRICS summit on Monday, claiming that "the presence of armed forces of the world's greatest power in the Caribbean Sea is a source of tension incompatible with the region's vocation for peace."
Lula went on to cite the 1968 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which established Latin America and the Caribbean as a nuclear-weapon-free zone. He called on BRICS members to defend multilateralism "with a single voice" in international forums, particularly at the United Nations.
