Reuters, Afp, Ap and Arn
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday June 11, 2022, p. 3
The Angels. Chile, Bolivia, the Bahamas, Barbados, and Antigua and Barbuda yesterday joined the criticism for the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua from the ninth Summit of the Americas, in contrast to Colombia, which denounced the dictatorships
of those three countries.
We should all be here and we are not all. I do not like the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua
said the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, at the closing of yesterday’s plenary sessions.
The Bolivian Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta, rejected the qualification of countries undemocratic
used by Washington to exclude Havana, Managua and Caracas from the continental appointment.
Mayta accused the Organization of American States of participating in the country’s coup in November 2019, and asked that the organization’s charter be respected.
Representatives of some Caribbean countries, such as the Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda, joined in echoing the criticism against Washington.
In contrast, the president of Colombia, Iván Duque, harshly denounced the dictatorships
Cuban, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan, and maintained that they have no place in the hemispheric forum because they are not democratic states.
Colombia thus aligned itself with the position of the United States, which ruled out inviting these three countries as dictatorships, which led to the absence of several Latin American leaders from the meeting, such as those of Mexico, Bolivia and Honduras.
On the other hand, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, commented that the US president, Joe Biden, showed sincere will to solve international problems, after their meeting on the sidelines of the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, presented a gloomy picture of the situation in his country marked by the unsafety
.
