The Puebla Group celebrates its IX. Meeting in Mexico

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The Puebla group begins its IX this Friday. Meeting in the Mexican city where the integration organization was founded, with the presence of several former presidents and whose purpose will be to present their “progressive foreign policy”.

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The forum said in a statement that it will set its progressive international agenda to combat hunger, economic blockades, the climate crisis and deglobalization at the event, which ends next Sunday.

He pointed out that former presidents Ernesto Samper (Colombia), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Manuel Zelaya (Honduras), Leonel Fernández (Dominican Republic) and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain) have already confirmed their participation had confirmed.

He added that “major leaders of the Puebla Group who could not attend, such as the presidents (of Brazil) Luiz Inácio Lula, (of Argentina) Alberto Fernández and the former presidents (of Uruguay) Pepe Mujica and (of Brazil) Dilma Rousseff supports this event and will deliver her virtual greeting at the opening conference.”

Special guests will be Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena, National Coordinator of the Defense Committees of the Fourth Transformation in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Argentine Minister of Climate Change, Cecilia Nicolini. among other things. .

Other topics of discussion at the meeting will be: the creation of a common currency, a new multilateralism, the convergence of its sub-regional integration organizations, the new solidarity development model, the energy transition and the integration of the continent into the global South. including through spaces such as the BRICS countries.

Likewise, a ceasefire proposal between Ukraine and Russia is being discussed, while a path to peace is being debated.

The event will present two books written by lawyers from the Latin American Council for Justice and Democracy (Clajud), entitled “OAS in the times of Almagro”, which detail their anti-democratic actions in the crises of the region and the legal wars against the Democracy: Law in Latin America.

The headquarters of the IX of the Puebla Group will be the International Baroque Museum, which will welcome more than 200 people, including members of the Forum and special guests.

Speaking about the meeting, Samper said: “As progressivism advances, we must also include this in our agenda and identify the international positions of the Puebla Group, taking into account that there are forces on the right that are in “We want to land in Latin America.” and we must “fight them, without ideological hatred, with progressive positions.”

For his part, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, coordinator of the Puebla Group, said that this forum is important because “Latin America and the Caribbean have regained their voice thanks to progressive governments and together we can propose changes in the region.”