The United States will not invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the Summit of the Americas in June, the head of US diplomacy for the region Brian Nichols said Monday.
“At a key moment in our hemisphere, we are facing many challenges for democracy” and Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela “do not respect the Democratic Charter of the Americas and therefore I do not expect their presence,” said Nichols, in an interview with the NTN24 network.
Asked if Washington will invite the Cuban government, which has attended the 2015 summit in Panama, Nichols replied: “No.” “It is a decision of the president (Joe Biden) but I think it has been very clear that (…) countries that do not respect democracy by their actions will not receive invitations,” she added.
In the past week, Cuba denounced that the United States excluded it from the preparations for the summit and called it a “historic setback” for the Biden administration.
These three countries are already on the list of those excluded in the region for the Democracy Summit held in December in Washington, along with Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Haiti.
The relationships between the United States and Cuba they have twitched even more from what Washington calls a “wave of oppression” after the protests of july 2021 on the island, which resulted in one death, dozens of injuries and 1,395 detainees according to the latest count by the Miami-based NGO, Cubalex.
Cuba blames the United States for being behind these protests, the largest since the triumph of the revolution in 1959.
On the other hand, the Biden government does not recognize the presidents of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, considering that they were elected in non-democratic elections.
The United States will not invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the Summit of the Americas in June, the head of US diplomacy for the region Brian Nichols said Monday.
“At a key moment in our hemisphere, we are facing many challenges for democracy” and Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela “do not respect the Democratic Charter of the Americas and therefore I do not expect their presence,” said Nichols, in an interview with the NTN24 network.
Asked if Washington will invite the Cuban government, which has attended the 2015 summit in Panama, Nichols replied: “No.” “It is a decision of the president (Joe Biden) but I think it has been very clear that (…) countries that do not respect democracy by their actions will not receive invitations,” she added.
In the past week, Cuba denounced that the United States excluded it from the preparations for the summit and called it a “historic setback” for the Biden administration.
These three countries are already on the list of those excluded in the region for the Democracy Summit held in December in Washington, along with Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Haiti.
The relationships between the United States and Cuba they have twitched even more from what Washington calls a “wave of oppression” after the protests of july 2021 on the island, which resulted in one death, dozens of injuries and 1,395 detainees according to the latest count by the Miami-based NGO, Cubalex.
Cuba blames the United States for being behind these protests, the largest since the triumph of the revolution in 1959.
On the other hand, the Biden government does not recognize the presidents of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, considering that they were elected in non-democratic elections.
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