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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuba Denounces Exclusion From Summit of the Americas</h1>April 26, 2022</div>
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<p>Foreign Minister
Bruno Rodriguez on Monday denounced Cuba's exclusion from the 9th Summit
of the Americas and the negotiation of documents foreign to Latin
America's reality.</p>
<p>In statements to the national and foreign press, Rodriguez stressed
that Washington deceives international public opinion about the
invitations to that meeting, scheduled for next June in the city of Los
Angeles, and that it exerts extreme pressure on countries in the region
opposed to that exclusion.</p>
<p>The head of Cuban
diplomacy pointed out that a main axis of the event will be health care,
but added that this subject "is negotiated opaquely including many
neoliberal elements and shortcomings regarding the real needs of people,
a so-called plan of action in health care and resilience of the
Americas until 2030,” he pointed out.</p>
<p>The foreign minister
warned that this text excludes Cuba and other member States of the
Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) that participate in these
processes. Rodriguez recalled that Cuba, in a modest but altruistic way,
has provided international cooperation in healthcare matters that is
recognized on a global scale.”</p>
<p>He pointed out that
the migration issue will also be at the center of the summit, on which
another document is being negotiated behind the back of public opinion.
The alleged document intends to force Latin American States to repress
migration and absorb the migrants that the United States rejects, with a
racist and xenophobic approach.</p>
<p>Rodriguez added that in Cuba’s case, the conduct of the United States
has been to cut off regular and safe channels and prevent emigration
through a policy that he described as selective and discriminatory.</p>
<p>He recalled that the
United States has failed to comply with the agreement to grant 20,000
annual visas, has forced applicants for this document to travel to
Guyana and has imposed third countries to establish transit visas for
Cubans, while encouraging illegal emigration.</p>
<p>He described as
positive the resumption of bilateral talks last week, the recognition by
the U.S. delegation of the breaches and the expressed desire to resume
consular services in Havana, although in a very limited way.</p>
<p>Rodriguez stressed
that the intention to exclude Cuba from the meeting would be due to a
politically motivated maneuver, as part of the double standard linked to
the internal and electoral situation in the United States. He thanked
the governments in the region for their the supportive position in favor
of inviting Cuba.</p>
<p>He also considered
that the United States lacks the moral authority to set itself up as a
model of Human Rights and democracy, an issue that will also be
discussed at the Los Angeles summit.</p>
<p>Rodriguez noted that Cuba supports the efforts to promote dialogue
and cooperation between Latin America and the United States, and its
exclusion would constitute a serious historical setback in relation to
the two previous summits, which had its participation.</p>
<p>It would be
surprising if US President Joe Biden departs from the policy of which he
was vice president (under the administration of Barack Obama
2009-2017), and even that of Republican President Donald Trump
(2017-2021), who invited Cuba to the Lima Summit, in Peru, he noted.</p>
<p>Finally, he stressed
that the United States should understand that Latin America has changed
forever and there is no room to impose the vision of the Monroe
Doctrine, against which the heroes of the peoples’ independence fought.</p>
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