President Alberto Fernandez heads this Tuesday, January 24, the summit of leaders of the CELAC that will take place in a Buenos Aires hotel, and that was marked by the controversy surrounding the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro, who in the end will not attend.
The VII Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will take place from 9:30 at the Sheraton Hotel in the city of Buenos Aires.
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The objective of the match, stressed Fernandez and his Brazilian pair Lula da Silva in the previous one, it will be to find that the CELAC “recover international leadership“, with a center-left agenda as cultivated by the leaders who summoned it.
The opening will be in charge of Fernández and the chancellor santiago cafiero and then the plenary will take place with the presence of the presidents of the more than thirty countries that make up this group.
Maduro dropped out of CELAC
One of the expected absences is that of the Venezuelan Maduro, about whom there were several questions about his possible presence on Argentine soil from the Argentine opposition, which describes him as a “dictator.”
Within this framework, the Chavista president decided to get off the summit (he had scheduled a bilateral meeting in Buenos Aires with the Brazilian Lula da Silva) and send the foreign minister, Yvan Gil“as head of delegation with instructions to carry the voice of the people of Venezuela,” he confirmed in a statement.
Massa explained that Argentina and Brazil will seek “a common currency, not a single one”
Guillermo Lasso does not participate in CELAC either
The Another president who got off was the Ecuadorian, Guillermo Lasso, who has a center-right profile, far from that of the leaders who called the meeting; while he will not participate either Daniel Ortegafrom Nicaragua.
The countries that are part of CELAC
Created in 2011, CELAC is made up of Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Commonwealth of Dominica and Mexico.
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela also do.
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