MIAMI, United States. — Juan González, main adviser for Latin America to the president of the United States, Joe Biden, assured in an interview with the EFE Agency that his government is willing to dialogue with totalitarian regimes in the hemisphere in order to recover democratic order and respect for human rights in those countries.
Asked about the cases of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, the official pointed out that the door to dialogue is open, although he made it clear that the fundamental objective of the current administration is to design politicians that support the peoples of those nations.
“The United States is always open to dialogue, and if it’s something that goes up to the level of the president, obviously he would consider it; but right now we are focused on a policy that supports the Cuban people while imposing a cost on human rights abuse, supporting a dialogue that is led by Venezuelans, seeking a return to democratic order in Nicaragua”, he said.
González highlighted the importance of demanding respect for human rights in those countries, so that later it is the citizens who “have the right to determine the future of their country.”
Biden’s adviser analyzed what happened in the recently concluded Summit of the Americaswhich was based in the city of Los Angeles, representatives of anti-democratic regimes were no longer invited.
“We are willing to have talks with Cuba, we support a dialogue in Venezuela, we have tried to talk with Nicaragua, but that is very different from inviting them here (…) In the talks, even in the retreat of leaders, there was a little talk about Cuba . No one spoke of Nicaragua. But very quickly the focus turned to what we can do together to meet the challenges.”
Juan González also addressed the possibility of an eventual return of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to the Summit of the Americas in 2025, which Washington would see as feasible as long as the US is not the venue for the continental meeting.
“The difference is inviting us as host to a country that is not respecting the fundamental rights of its own people. Inviting them here, for the president, was a decision that, seeing the images of what the (Cuban) regime did after July 11 of last year, and the sentence to young people under 18, to singers… That is very difficult justify inviting someone (like this) here, to a summit that we are presiding over,” the presidential adviser told the EFE Agency.
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