The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, proposed this Monday to hold a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in which the president of the United States, Joe Biden, is invited.
The Venezuelan president raised the CELAC summit after once again denouncing Washington’s act of exclusion and discrimination and its decision not to invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the Summit of the Americas which is celebrated in Los Angeles from this Monday.
Maduro affirmed that it will have to be Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who temporarily chairs CELAC, who convenes “sooner rather than later a summit meeting” attended by “the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and President Joe Biden is invited to listen to the dignity of our peoples and our history».
“It will be a way to start a new path, as President (of Mexico) López Obrador proposed today in the reflections he has been making. A new body where all the countries of our America participate, “said the president during a meeting of the Council of Vice Presidents.
Maduro affirmed that the United States “stabbed the so-called Summit” of the Americas, which he asserted is a “total failure.”
“It has no agenda, it has no topic, it has no decision points, it has nothing to link that meeting to the problems and issues of interest to the peoples of the Americas,” he added.
He affirmed that despite the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, the voice of these three countries will be at the Los Angeles summit “in different ways, in the streets as protests, in the meeting room.”
“We join the general repudiation of our continent to discrimination, to the acts of exclusion of the United States,” said the head of state.
AMLO’s courage
Maduro expressed his “admiration for the clarity and courage” of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who ratified this Monday that will not attend to the summit in Los Angeles after pointing out that “not all the countries of America are invited” and is committed to “changing the policy that has been imposed for centuries.”
“We have expressed our admiration for the clarity and courage of President López Obrador and all the support for the message that he has sent in recent weeks to abandon the world of sanctions, blockades, exclusions, and discrimination,” he said. Ripe.
The Summit of the Americas will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, California, for the next five days, from June 6 to 10.
The exclusion of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba; and the absence of countries like Bolivia, and the member nations of Caricom, have cast doubt on the meaning of the Summit.
However, it is estimated that the States that attended will discuss the coronavirus pandemic and its implications for health, the economy, education and social protection, as well as the threats to democracy and the climate crisis.
