Chile defends that Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela attend the Summit of the Americas in the face of the US veto.

the chancellor of ChiliAntonia Urrejola, affirmed this Sunday that she is in favor of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela participating in the Summit of the Americas and added that in recent years “exclusion has not given results in terms of human rights.”

“Everyone knows where the president stands (the progressive Gabriel Boric) regarding the human rights situation in those countries, and mine as well. But what we have been insisting on in the bilateral talks (…) is that hopefully this will be as broad a summit as possible.”, said the chancellor in an interview with the newspaper La Tercera.

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The State Department of USAthe country that will host the continental event in June, confirmed last week that ruled out inviting Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the Summit of the Americas for considering that they “do not respect” democracy.

However, on Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the invitations have not yet been sent out because “there is no final decision.”

According to the Chilean foreign minister, regardless of the differences and even the convictions that may exist in the area of ​​human rights, the “post-pandemic, with the economic crisis, is also a time to have a space for dialogue beyond the differences.”

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Urrejola explained that the presence of Chile in the forum will not be subject to the participation of these countries.as Mexico has expressed, adding that he hopes that many other heads of state will not fail to attend if that is the case.

“The region is super-fragmented, it has become polarized and, in some way, under the leadership of President (of the United States) Biden it would be important to be able to talk beyond the differences”he wielded

at the summit, borika former left-wing student leader who has denounced on several occasions the human rights violations committed in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, will be the promoter of a new leadership, the foreign minister said.

His speech, precisely, in terms of the value of democracy and human rights, is “a new speech on the Latin American left,” he specified.

The Summit of the Americas, the main diplomatic forum of the American continent, will be held in Los Angeles (California) from June 6 to 10 and it is the first time that it is organized by the USA since the first edition, in 1994.

Source: Elcomercio

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