the government of Cuba attacked this Monday (6) the decision of the United States not to invite your country, nor to Nicaragua Or the Venezuela to the Summit of the Americas the regional meeting held this week in Los Angeles .
“There is no reason to justify the undemocratic and arbitrary exclusion of any country in the hemisphere from this continental meeting,” said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “You cannot talk about the Americas without including every country in the hemisphere,” the statement insisted.
US officials stated that the lack of human rights and undemocratic elections in these three Latin American countries motivated the decision to exclude these nations from the Summit. Cuba was invited to the event for the first time in 2015, in the midst of negotiations with the then administration of President Barack Obama, and again in 2018.
Controversy over invitations threatened to derail the Summit before it even began, after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would boycott the event if Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela were not convened. This Monday (6), López Obrador announced that he would not attend and that he would send a delegation in his place.
US officials reported that Cuban opposition activists were invited to represent the island in Los Angeles, but claimed that the Cuban government prevented them from traveling to the Summit.
Source: CNN Brasil
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