The IX Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) He rejected on Wednesday in Tegucigalpa The US deportation policy. He also alluded to the tariff war that Washington began and said that the “imposition of unilateral coercive measures” is “contrary to international law” and “restrictive” of international trade.
The “Tegucigalpa declaration“It was signed by 30 countries. Argentina, Paraguay and El Salvador turned their backs on a text in which the region expressed its positions on the latest global events. The leaders also pledged to strengthen” international cooperation, democracy and the rule of law, multilateralism, the protection of human rights, respect for self -determination and non -interference to internal affairs. “
Beyond the document, the participants of the meeting in the Honduran capital put the accent on the effects of the immigration policy of the Republican tycoon, although they abstained to name it. “Once I was insulted for saying that migrants are not criminals and that they should not get chained to our land. If we accept a single migrant chained, we go back to the time when the first black ships arrived. We cannot accept the chains, “said Colombian Gustavo Petro.” How many millions of migrants treated as criminals are we going to accept as a dialogue? That is not dialogue, it is imposition. Or we stop as Latin America and establish a different agenda. “The Colombian president criticized in that sense the agreement between Trump and Nayib Bocale for which they have been locked in a maximum savior prison of Salvadoran dozens of deportees, including Venezuelans.
Lula and Sheinbaum’s words
Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also talked about the “criminalization” dand migrants and referred to the “arbitrary tariffs that destabilize the international economy and raise prices” throughout the planet. “History teaches us that trade wars have no victors.”
“We need policies that recognize that the first reason for migration is in the lack of attention to the fundamental needs of the population of our countries,” said Mexican Claudia Sheinbaum. The host of the summit, Xiomara Castro, lamented the treatment they receive in the United States the young Latin Americans who went to look for the “American dream.” And he stressed: “United States redraws your economic map without asking what peoples are left behind. “
The CELAC found a global scenario disrupted in front of which you must give answers. The word regional “integration” He was in the mouth of several speakers. The president of Mexico was one of those who urged to “realize greater regional economic integration based on shared prosperity and respect for our sovereignty.” The countries that make up this space must face together “moments of deep changes in world trade” because Latin America and the Caribbean are “a community of destination, united by history, by diversity, resistance and, above all, for dreams of justice.” To which Petro said: “Let’s not fall into the trap to solve the problems alone, because they will destroy us or we are going to self -destruct.” For his Brazilian colleague “it is imperative that Latin America and the Caribbean They redefine their place in the new global order that is emerging ” since “a structured action program around three issues that demand collective action” is needed. According to Lula, “We run the risk of falling into a new area of influence in a new division of the world.”
A woman at the head of the UN
The participants of the Summit of Honduras expressed in turn the “conviction” that it is “appropriate and adequate that a national person from a State of Latin America and the Caribbean occupies the General Secretariat of the United Nations Organization.” They recalled that of the nine general secretaries that the UN has had to date, only one came, the Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, came from the region. They stressed in turn that “the position has never been occupied by a woman.” Lula commented on the matter: “CELAC can contribute to restor the UN credibility by choosing the first woman general secretary of the organization.”
Honduras delivered the leadership of Celac to Colombia. At the beginning of November, the IV Summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is celebrated in the coastal city of Santa Marta.
