Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Oct. 1 -The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its deep concern and rejection of the decision imposed by the United States government on the Dominican Republic to exclude three countries, including Cuba, from the X Summit of the Americas, to be held on December 4 and 5 in Punta Cana.
This decision constitutes an evident capitulation to the brutal unilateral pressures of the U.S. Secretary of State.
The exclusion of several countries would consolidate the historical regression in this summit system and make impossible a respectful and productive exchange between Latin America and the Caribbean with the imperialist power that is once again using the "gunboat policy" and the Monroe Doctrine against our region.
If this decision persists, subordination and submission to the voracious and expansionist neighbor will prevail, threatening regional peace, security, and stability in open defiance of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace and a community of independent and sovereign states exercising self-determination, in unity based on diversity.
As President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared in February 2025, "Today, the United States government seeks to define the options for the countries of the region, which are: either submit to us or be subject to aggression."
It must be remembered that this exclusion would ignore the progress made at previous Summits, in which Cuba's participation was a milestone, and would disregard the almost unanimous protest of the region, forcefully expressed at the failed Los Angeles Summit, with the absence of several Heads of State and Government, and the voice of 18 Heads of State and Government and 11 Foreign Ministers.
A Summit of the Americas built on exclusion and coercion is doomed to failure. One cannot seriously speak of a “political dialogue” between Our America and the United States based on censorship and exclusion, inequity and abuse.
We reiterate our willingness to engage in respectful and constructive dialogue, under conditions of sovereign equality and without exclusions.
Speaking at the VII Summit of the Americas, held in Panama in April 2015, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz stated: “Hemispheric relations, in my opinion, must change profoundly, particularly in the political, economic, and cultural spheres, so that, based on international law and the exercise of self-determination and sovereign equality, they focus on the development of mutually beneficial ties and cooperation to serve the interests of all our nations and the objectives they proclaim.”
Ten years later, hemispheric relations have not changed in essence. (Text and Photo: Cubadebate)
