the ninth America summit could turn into a harsh diplomatic backlash for the United States after the discontent provoked by the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, Argentinian newspaper Pagina 12 reported today.
in one article At the June appointment in Los Angeles, California, journalist Gustavo Veiga pointed out that the absences from the event will come as a blow to Washington’s fractured hegemony, as Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and Luis Arce of Bolivia announced that they will not be attending.
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In addition, many other leaders, including Honduran President Xiomara Castro and Argentina’s Alberto Fernández, have criticized the position of the Joe Biden administration and called for a summit without exclusions to be held.
The United States is making a decision using the same logic as that adopted by the Organization of American States when it expelled Cuba in 1962.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs points out something on its official website that is not verified in practice: the declared open and unreserved nature of its summons to the meeting, Veiga indicated.
He also asserted that Washington’s decision not to invite these nations became a problem the magnitude of which the White House had not foreseen.
Washington intends to address two important issues at the summit: immigration and health policies. Mexico has too much to say about the first, and Cuba has shown about the second that it was a world vanguard during the Covid-19 pandemic, he stressed.
The island is the only Latin American country to make its own vaccines and send its medical brigades to dozens of nations as the pandemic raged in 2020, he added. (Latin Press)