The event is sponsored by several entities and media outlets, among them the Corporation for the Development of Maipo, Cronica Digital social media, Prensa Latina, and the Academy of Christian Humanism University, which hosts the meeting.

Alvaro Ramis, rector of that University, and Jose Miguel Ahumada, former Undersecretary of International Economic Relations, will speak at the event.

Other participants are Felipe Caetano, head of the Agri-Food Trade, Tourism, and Investment Promotion sector at the Brazilian Embassy in Chile, and academicians Mladen Yopo, Gonzalo Martner, and Manuel Riesco.

The BRICS group emerged in 2010 as an economic trade association of five emerging economies, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and was consolidated as an alternative to favor cooperation and multilateralism.

Subsequently, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia joined the BRICS.

Other nations, including Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia,

Nigeria, Thailand, Turkiye, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, joined the bloc as associate members during the Summit held in Kazan, Russia.

The bloc accounts for about 40 percent of the planet’s population and 37 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The next BRICS leaders’ meeting will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6-7.

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