The Puebla Group and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) called for a Summit of the Americas to be held without excluding any nation.
“The Puebla Group invites the government of President (of the United States, Joe) Biden to hold the next Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, in June, without excluding the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua,” he says. AVN.
According to the bloc, leaving out these countries that have suffered “the social costs of the predatory impact of the Covid-19 virus” makes no sense, if in the end the management of the pandemic and climate change in the region.
“All Latin American countries require international cooperation and economic exchange to be able to bear the social bill and attend to the economic reactivation derived from the pandemic. Some of them, like Cuba, could even contribute a lot in new experiences for the prevention and eradication of the virus and its possible new variations,” the text indicates.
Similarly, the group stressed that this would be a discrimination for ideological reasons that would affect the possibilities of regional cooperation necessary to overcome the coming crises.
For its part, CELAC insisted that “it is essential that we overcome ideological divisions and focus on finding coincidences”, due to the serious consequences that the coronavirus pandemic has left in the region.
This multilateral organization claims dialogue and cooperation as key tools for the well-being of peoples. For this reason, it considers that this Summit of the Americas “represents a great opportunity to build a meeting space in which all the countries of the hemisphere participate in an open and inclusive manner, under the unifying objective of concerting joint actions,” it points out in its publication. .
Celac, especially Argentina, the nation that holds the pro tempore presidency of this intergovernmental entity, urged the organizers “to avoid exclusions that prevent all the voices of the hemisphere from dialoguing and being heard.”
