Cuba calls the US undemocratic for excluding it from the Summit of the Americas

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The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, charged this Friday against the “anti-democratic” and “interfering” of USA. for excluding his country, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas.

Díaz-Canel offered These words when inaugurating in Havana the summit of leaders of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), convened as a surprise ten days before the Summit of the Americas.

“Neither politically nor morally do they have such a right” to decide who is invited to the summit, he said. the president of Cuba, who criticized that the US assumes a “supervising power of democracy“.

In his opinion, it is a “historic setback”, because Cuba had already been invited to the two previous editions of the Summit of the Americas, in Panama. in 2015 and in Peru; in 2018.

Díaz-Canel affirmed that that in the US “they are not capable of ensuring a plural space” and “disrespect differences” between the different political systems.

He also denounced the “deception maneuvers” of the USA, an attempt in his opinion “disrespectful and harmful”, and the “outdated and unacceptable policy of submission” what it means.

He highlighted likewise the “strong opposition” The US decision not to include all countries on the guest list has found in the region.

Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras and Guatemala have questioned their participation. Even if there are countries excluded and others have criticized that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua do not participate in the meeting in Los Angeles.

“The US Government disregards the demand for a true hemispheric summit with all the countries of the continent”, said Díaz-Canel. 

The United States did not invite Venezuela and Nicaragua to the meeting scheduled for June 6 to 10 and has been ambiguous about a possible invitation to an official of the Government of Cuba.