Americas Summit Represents Neither Unity, Integration, Nor Solidarity

The absurd decision to disinvite Latin American nations from the Summit of the Americas—particularly those with a long history of solidarity within the hemisphere—eliminates any possibility of regional unity and integration. This move reveals the true purpose of the dictatorial government currently in the White House: to impose its will on other sovereign states, breaking their self-determination and independence.

This gathering will resemble other meetings of the Organization of American States (OAS) with the supervisor, the United States, at the helm. It will deepen, albeit in a sugar-coated and disguised manner with fallacies on migration, tariffs, and imperial economic interests, the divide between the rich and the poor.

It is deeply regrettable that the Dominican Republic, host of the event scheduled for December 1-5 in Punta Cana, has decided, in compliance with Washington, to exclude not only Cuba but also Venezuela and Nicaragua. What is the fear at this Summit?

This is only understandable when the truth is not welcome from besieged, blockaded, and threatened nations that seek a socio-economic development path different from North America's, one that includes a more appropriate system of social justice for their citizens.

In a context of aggressiveness and violation of international law—marked by the genocide in Gaza by Israel in collusion with the Donald Trump administration, and the interfering presence of the U.S. in Caribbean waters—these exclusions of countries that need to be represented and raise their voices for their people are shameful. These nations would also speak for those perpetually excluded from development and the right to life, who are still abundant on the continent and in the world.

This Conclave, even before it has begun, is doomed to fail. The declaration of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as a Zone of Peace is endangered by senseless and divisive actions like those currently underway in this so-called "Summit of the Americas" or "Summit of Exclusion."

Some leaders try to forget how their own countries have been militarily intervened, leaving a legacy of trauma and death, precisely by the self-proclaimed "global policeman." This power does not cease in its Machiavellian, deceptive efforts to pressure and blackmail those who disobey, and it is the same power that decides who attends or does not attend the meeting in Punta Cana. Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the absence of our sister nations of Latin America and the Caribbean.

But the people are wise and never forget their aggressors, and they always have the final word in repudiating such ignominies. Real unity and integration are built by dignified, free men and women, not by the servile rulers who still proliferate across the Americas in the full light of the 21st century.