[News] From Cuba - Summit of the Americas: Imperialist domination and exclusion

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groups.io <https://groups.io/g/cubanews/topic/91599514> Summit of the
Americas: Imperialist domination and exclusion June 6, 2022

Statement by the Revolutionary Government

Havana, June 6th, 2022.- The US Government, abusing its privilege of being
the host country, decided at a very early stage to exclude Cuba, Venezuela
and Nicaragua from the 9th Summit of the Americas to be held in the city of
Los Angeles this month of June.  It has refused to attend to the just
claims of many governments to change that discriminatory and unacceptable
stand.

There is no single reason that justifies the anti-democratic and arbitrary
exclusion of any country of the hemisphere from this continental meeting,
as warned by the Latin American and Caribbean nations at the 6th Summit
held in Cartagena de Indias in 2012.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez announced last May 25 that he would
not attend the meeting.  This was Cuba’s final decision if all countries of
the hemisphere were not convened on an equal footing.

Arrogance, fear of inconvenient truths being voiced, determination to
prevent the meeting from discussing the most pressing and complex issues in
the hemisphere, and the contradictions of its own feeble and polarized
political system are behind the US government’s decision to once again
resort to exclusion in order to hold a meeting with no concrete
contributions yet beneficial for imperialism’s image.

It is a well-known fact that the US Government has engaged in intensive
high-level efforts with governments of the region seeking to reverse the
intention of many of not attending the meeting unless all countries are
invited. Such efforts included immoral pressure, blackmail, threats and
dirty deceptive maneuvers.  These are all common practices that reflect
imperialism’s traditional disdain for our countries and deserve the
strongest rejection.

Cuba appreciates and respects the honorable, brave and legitimate stand of
many governments in defense of the full and equal participation of all
countries.

The leadership of Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador deserves
special recognition. We highlight the clear stand of CARICOM member
countries from the outset against such exclusions, as well as the firm
stance of Bolivian president Luis Arce Catacora and of the president of
Honduras Xiomara Castro. The position of Argentine as chairman of CELAC
expresses the majority view of the region against a selective Summit, as
expressed, both publicly and in private, by many governments of South and
Central America.

Such genuine and spontaneous solidarity in reaction to this US
discriminatory action against countries of the region reflects the
sentiment of the peoples of Our America. The United States underestimated
the support Cuba enjoys in the region, when it attempted to impose its
unilateral and universally rejected hostile policy towards Cuba as a
consensus regional position, however, the debate on the invitation process
proved them wrong.

The 21st ALBA Summit held in Havana last May 27, showed the unequivocal
repudiation of exclusions and discriminatory and selective treatment.

Such exclusions confirm that the United States conceived and uses this
high-level dialogue mechanism as an instrument to further its hegemonic
system in the hemisphere, just like the Organization of American States
(OAS), the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) and other
bodies established in the 20th century to curb independence, limit the
sovereignty of nations in the region and thwart Latin American and
Caribbean unity and integration aspirations.

They are part of the efforts to implement the Monroe Doctrine and promote
exclusion as a dividing strategy for clear political, electoral and
domination purposes.

One cannot speak of “The Americas” without including all the countries of
the hemisphere.  Our region demands cooperation, not exclusion; solidarity,
not meanness; respect, not arrogance; sovereignty and self-determination,
not subordination.

It is known that the documents to be adopted at Los Angeles are completely
divorced from the real problems facing the region and that beyond the
effort to grant the OAS supranational prerogatives to decide upon the
legitimacy of electoral processes and to compel Latin American and
Caribbean governments to impose repressive, discriminatory and excluding
actions against migrants, these documents are useless and vague.

We know that, like in the past, the voice of Latin America and the
Caribbean will resound during those days in Los Angeles with the admirable
and principled absence of relevant leaders who enjoy political and moral
authority and the recognition of their people and the world.

We are also fully confident that the leaders of the region, who choose to
attend, will argue with dignity that the United States cannot treat our
peoples as they used to in the 20th century.

Cuba supports the genuine efforts to promote integration throughout the
hemisphere based on civilized coexistence, peace, respect for diversity and
solidarity. Cuba has a widely acknowledged record of unreserved support and
contribution to all legitimate proposals for actual and concrete solutions
to the most pressing problems faced by our peoples. The reality we are
presented with today is far from such aspirations.

(Cubaminrex)
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