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The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, said on Wednesday that he is not interested in participating in the Summit of the Americas< /strong> that the United States will welcome in June in Los Angeles, where some leaders have already conditioned his presence to the fact that there are no exclusions.
& quot; to the Yankee: forget about it, we are not interested in being at that Summit, we are not interested (…) that summit does not exalt anyone,” he said. Ortega during an activity in Managua on this June appointment.
Washington, who has not the invitations, raised that respect for democracy is a condition for attending the summit.
The head of US diplomacy for the Americas, Brian Nichols, had pointed out that Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela “They do not respect” the 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter.
“We have to make ourselves respected, we cannot be asking the Yankee, begging him that we want to go to his Summit. We are not stimulated by your summit,” said Ortega.
The president said he understood the concerns of Latin American presidents like the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador ” who have been questioning (.. .) the fact of that the Yankees are marginalizing Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua“, he maintained.
After warnings from Washington, in addition to the president of Mexico, Bolivia, Luis Arce, also announced that makes his assistance conditional on there being no exclusions at the next hemispheric summit to be held in Mexico. June 6-10 in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, the president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, has already announced that he will not attend, after rejecting criticism from the US government the appointment of Consuelo Porras as Attorney General for four more years, despite the fact that she has been sanctioned for corruption. n.
For her part, the president of Honduras, the leftist Xiomara Castro, Not to exclude any country, while the Chilean Foreign Minister, Antonia Urrejola, has asked that the call be “as broad as possible”; and remembered that the exclusion in this forum of countries such as Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba “has not produced results.” to strengthen the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) that emerged in 2011 as an integration organization without the presence of the United States. “We Latin Americans have to defend ourselves so that they respect us,” he said. and proposed that CELAC be the one to invite the United States.