On Friday night, sources from the Mexican Foreign Ministry confirmed to CNN that the questioned president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was heading to Mexico to attend the summit.
With an outstanding presence, that of the President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel, and a no less notable absence, of the Argentine President Alberto Fernández, Mexico will host this Saturday the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
The presence of Díaz-Canel has been the subject of controversy after being invited by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the acts by “El Grito de Independencia” from Mexico. In an action considered unusual for military acts, López Obrador demanded in the context of a military parade the lifting of what he called "blockade" on Cuba, in reference to the United States embargo. Opposition sectors in Mexico and Cubans residing in the country criticized the invitation to Díaz-Canel after protests on the island in July. The other outstanding news before the start of the summit was the cancellation of the visit of the president of Argentina,whose government is mired in a crisis after the poor results obtained by the ruling party in the primaries to elect candidates for the November legislatures and the public confrontation with Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The historian Rafael Rojas analyzes in Aristegui both events and what is expected of the summit.
