Boric says that excluding Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba from the Summit of the Americas is a “mistake”

the president of Chili, Gabriel Boricsaid this Monday that the exclusion by the United States of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba from the Summit of the Americas is a “mistake”, emphasizing that this strategy “is not the way to go and has not produced results historically.”

“When the US tries to exclude certain countries, ultimately what it does is reinforce the position they have and we believe that it is a mistake and we are going to say it at the summit, without for a moment stopping raising our voice to defend human rights”, Boric said at a press conference from Ottawa.

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Before going to Los Angeles (USA) to participate in the continental forum, the Chilean president traveled to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and sign an agreement on gender equality.

“It cannot be that in our American continent the only thing that is talked about outside is only our disagreements with two or three countries. We have many more issues in common, such as what we have presented today with Justin Trudeau, “said the former student leader.

The days leading up to this ninth edition of the Summit of the Americas have been marked by controversy over the guest list, after the United States announced its intention to exclude Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela by not considering their governments to be democratic. .

After a few days of uncertainty, the Joe Biden administration chose to leave them out of the summit due to “the lack of democratic spaces and the human rights situation” in those three countries.

Several Latin American countries had already expressed their disagreement with that decision and some leaders, as a form of protest, have decided not to attend the summit, such as the Bolivian Luis Arce and the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who announced his refusal this Monday. .

Unlike other leaders in the region who made their attendance at the summit subject to the participation of all hemispheric countries, Boric announced weeks ago that he would attend the event.

“We have said it ad nauseam, no one is going to save themselves, but we have to unite to be able to have better development in our nations,” stressed the Chilean leader, who this afternoon will participate in a dialogue with high school students from Ottawa and then depart for Los Angeles.

Source: Elcomercio

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