Rather, the government of Joe Biden intends to impose on the other members of the hemisphere what it considers to be the vital interests of the United States, something common in these meetings, although very dangerous in the current Latin American and Caribbean and global context.
Convened for next June under the vague slogans: “Rebuild a Better World” and “Build a sustainable, resilient and equitable future”, it has already transpired that key issues, such as health in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and migration, will not be addressed at background, but, rather, in the discriminatory framework of Washington’s policy.
Weeks after its inauguration, complaints emerged of manipulation by the hosts of both the content and the invitations, to exclude, for example, Cuba, subjected to more than 60 years of economic, commercial and financial blockade, causing damage today equivalent to one trillion 326 thousand 432 million dollars.
To this end, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced, the White House exerts extreme pressure on numerous countries in the region that favor the participation of the Caribbean island.
In addition to Cuba, the US government also intends to exclude other countries, such as Venezuela and Nicaragua, from its meeting, which caused the immediate rejection of Mexico and several other nations, which also highlighted their contributions of those countries in the global confrontation with the pandemic. and the migration crisis.
Cuba never requested to participate in these “summits”, which emerged in 1994 in Miami, United States, and were followed by similar ones in Chile (1998), Canada (2001), Mexico (2004), Argentina (2005), Trinidad and Tobago (2009). , Colombia (2012), Panama (2015) and Peru (2018).
Some of these had to be carried out under extraordinary police protection measures, due to growing protests by anti-globalization demonstrators (Quebec-2001) and defenders of other popular causes.
One of the most newsworthy “peaks” of the summits marked the crushing failure of the US Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) project in Mar del Plata in 2005.
In 2015, in Panama, Cuba participated for the first time in the Summit of the Americas, after insistent demands from member countries in previous regional meetings, which also condemned the US blockade.
Some political definitions are pending in Washington before the announced summit. Will Los Angeles be an opportunity for dialogue and regional cooperation, as some claim? Or, simply, another conflictive summit, downhill?
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