Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Havana, June 8 (RHC)-- The 9th Summit of the Americas, which begins this Wednesday in Los Angeles, California, is a publicity stunt aimed at the domestic politics of the United States and will demonstrate its government's lack of real interest in attending to the most serious and immediate problems of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
President Miguel Díaz Canel-Bermúdez made this statement during a meeting with representatives of the Cuban civil society excluded from participating in that Summit.
In his speech broadcasted on Cuban TV and radio on Wednesday, the President recounted the behavior of the northern power, the considerations made by the Cuban national hero José Martí on its hegemonic ambitions, and the prevalence of those concepts.
"The philosophical dogma that always accompanied that insatiable ambition is the Manifest Destiny, a deep-rooted conviction of racist and supremacist nature, whose conceptual statement is the Monroe Doctrine," Diaz-Canel said.
The Cuban President recalled that the United States lacks the moral capacity to speak of democracy, an alleged principle used to promote exclusions at the Summit.
There are mechanisms to "buy politicians" and restrict votes in that country, with no guarantees for essential health services. The sale of arms has priority over children's rights or their access to education, he said.
Díaz-Canel stressed that in that country, the imprisonment of children and adolescents has very high figures as well as manifestations of racism and discrimination.
Turning to the denial to process the vistas of the Cuban civil society members to attend the Summit, the President added that Washington is not only satisfied with determining who and how the Cuban government should be. It now intends to define the representatives of civil society and which social actors are legitimate and which are not.
"We are honored to head that the exclusion list with the leaders of Venezuela and Nicaragua and together with you, genuine representatives of our people, as we are honored by the gallant solidarity of Manuel López Obrador, Lucho Arce, Xiomara Castro, the Caribbean leaders who have emphatically rejected exclusions, and others who will surely do so during the Summit itself," Diaz-Canel said.
