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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Peruvian Lawmakers Call for Inclusion of All at the Summit of the Americas</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits"></div>By Gustavo A Maranges and Bill Hackwell on May 22, 2022</div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2">
<div id="gmail-attachment_20399" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20399" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/5-23-peru-img.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1" alt="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" width="300" height="200"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-20399" class="gmail-wp-caption-text"><font size="1">Margot Palacios and Silvana Robles</font></p></div>
<p>The IX Summit of the Americas to take place in Los Angeles , June
6-10, continues to generate news in the region and it is not exactly
what the Biden Administration was looking for. Friday, Peruvian
lawmakers Margot Palacios and Silvana Robles declared their opposition
to a summit that would take place without Cuba, Venezuela, and
Nicaragua.<span id="gmail-more-20398"></span></p>
<p>“We need a more tolerant and inclusive Summit of the Americas,”
Palacios said. The parliamentarians criticized the fact that the U.S.
invitations have been biased by ideological prejudices.</p>
<p>Likewise, Robles said, “If the United States really wants to make an
inclusive invitation, it cannot discriminate against countries with a
different political position.”</p>
<p>The reactions of the Peruvian legislators constitute one more element
of pressure on the Biden administration. Both parliamentarians belong
to the ruling Peru Libre Party. Thus, it is a message that casts doubt
on the participation of President Pedro Castillo, especially considering
the war he is waging against the Peruvian right wing, which is loyal to
US interests.</p>
<p>These mounting statements, coming from those forced for decades to be
quiet, are another strong indicator that most of the countries in the
region oppose the attitude of the U.S. government. The Summit of the
Americas could be the perfect opportunity to initiate a constructive
dialogue among all political tendencies in the region and to establish
coherent and coordinated positions on phenomena of utmost
regional importance, such as migration, access to health care, poverty;
all conducted in an atmosphere of inclusiveness and mutual respect.</p>
<p>However, the ideological prejudices of the U.S. ruling class have
arrogantly assumed the role of deciding who can come and who can’t as if
the host country should have that privilege. Since the beginning the
Biden Administration has alienated a growing number of Latin American
and Caribbean countries by saying that Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
would not be invited because they don’t meet a vague democratic standard
defined by them, thereby excluding three governments that have much to
contribute to the main topics of the agenda.</p>
<p>The first one to disagree with Biden’s decision was the Mexican
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), together with Bolivian and
Honduran presidents Luis Arce and Xiomara Castro, who conditioned their
participation to the attendance of all the governments of the region.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), made up of 14 states and 6 overseas
territories from European countries, joined this position. Similarly,
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez and Chilean Foreign Minister
Antonia Urrejola urged the United States to guarantee an inclusive
summit which respects the diversity that characterizes the region.
Although neither of these governments has taken a stand as formidable as
AMLO or Arce, their statements suggest that they get the drift that
this Summit could be doomed to failure if the current situation does not
change between now and the short time before the Summit is to begin.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei also announced
he would not attend the summit. In his statement, the president said his
decision was in response to the State Department’s recent measures
against the Central American country’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras
and her husband, who were banned from entering the US for being
considered “corrupt agents”.</p>
<p>Although Giammattei’s position is not related to the unjust exclusion
of three heads of state, it is another example of the regional
rejection to the US colonial attitude and it’s meddling in other
countries affairs. This case is even more relevant if we take into
account that the Guatemalan president, who is far from progressive, has
been one of the closest allies of Washington in the region.</p>
<p>The opposition to the exclusions of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua has
found strong support in the social movements in the United States.
Progressive forces have joined efforts to organize the <a href="https://peoplessummit2022.org/">People’s Summit for Democracy</a>
nearby on June 8-9-10. The initiative, led by The People’s Forum, that
will be covered by Resumen Latinoamericano correspondents, is going to
be a parallel event to give voice to all those who have been
marginalized from the official event because they are opposed to US
foreign policy. Undoubtedly, this will be the real summit. For those who
can’t make it across the border to Los Angeles for that, the <a href="https://workerssummit.com/">Workers’ Summit of the Americas</a> will take place in Tijuana Mexico on June 10-12.</p>
<p>The debate surrounding the Summit of the Americas makes it possible
to forecast that the event has a strong possibility of exposing not just
US failure to establish a coherent foreign policy toward Latin America
but its shrinking influence in the region. It is evident that Washington
does not understand that the regional scenario has changed. Therefore,
its colonialist and reactionary strategy only isolates it more and more
from the hemisphere it finds itself in.</p>
<p>Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – English</p>
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