BRICS- Why is Brazil's Lula helping Argentina crash the party?

... line to join the organization. None of it was directly attributed to president Dilma Rousseff. Dilma, still in her first term leading the nation as the hand-picked successor of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, invited her friend president Cristina Kirchner of Argentina to attend meetings at which BRICS leaders were present. There was even talk that Argentina and its inflationary, dollar-starved economy would be “first in line” at the loan window when the emerging “BRICS ...