“Our full solidarity with the brother countries of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, which have been arbitrarily and full of false pretenses excluded from this summit,” read a statement from the movement, which brings together houses of friendship with Cuba from around the country.
He added that the three marginalized countries have the solidarity of “many worthy and sovereign governments that are growing in number” and of all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The text quoted a statement by former Bolivian President Evo Morales as saying that the summit was “deadborn” due to the marginalization of countries with policies Washington does not like.
He also welcomed Mexican President Andrés López Obrador’s decision not to attend the meeting due to the above exclusions, a position he describes as courageous; and the similar stance of Presidents of Honduras Xiomara Castro and Bolivia Luis Arce.
As a gesture of protest against exclusion, he also highlighted the absence of several leaders of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
According to the statement, the marginalization of countries with policies different from those of the United States is aimed at preventing “their voices, which denounce the real causes of the problems and inequalities in the region,” from being heard.
Washington intends – he added – that the word of the three countries against “the 63 years of criminal economic blockade against Cuba and the economic sanctions against Venezuela and Nicaragua” will not be heard.
The same maneuvers were used to prevent the participation of representatives of civil society and social actors of Cuba, including youth, in the Peoples’ Summit, which means that they are now deciding not only which government should participate, but also who civil society represented, he added.
In defining the character of the Los Angeles Summit, the Peru-Cuba Solidarity Movement quoted Fidel Castro’s phrase when Washington also organized the 1994 Summit of the Americas and excluded Cuba: “How much cowardice, mediocrity and political misery this exclusion really reflects.” , he assured, repeated today.
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