The Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) this Tuesday ended with support for Mexico and rejection of Ecuador, without further details being revealed because it was held virtually, although a South American television channel partially broadcast it.
The Honduran vice chancellor, Gerardo Torres, briefly told EFE around 5:30 p.m. local time (23:30 GMT) that a statement would be issued, which had not happened three hours later.
The summit was called by the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, in her capacity as pro tempore head of Celac, to discuss the violent events at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, on the 5th, when security forces took out the forces the former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glas.
Due to the secrecy that has existed around the Summit, It is not known how many presidents and delegates participatedalthough those in attendance included those from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Last week Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay expressed their disagreement with the pro tempore presidency and announced that they would not support holding the Summitamong other reasons, because “consensus was not reached, a basic requirement for adopting decisions in all CELAC instances, as indicated by the Community’s procedures”.
At this Tuesday’s Summit there was widespread support for Mexico, whose president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked that they join his complaint against Ecuador in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) after the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
“We appreciate the solidarity of the majority of the people and governments of Latin America and the Caribbean, and we also want to propose to you, if you consider it viable and feasible, that you join us by signing the complaint in the international court of justice,” declared the president in his initial message.
The violent event recorded at the Mexican diplomatic legation in the Ecuadorian capital “is unacceptable,” said the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, while his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, described it as “an act of barbarism.” EFE
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