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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stressed that the US's provocative move by not inviting Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to the Summit of the Americas is a discriminatory measure that guarantees the failure of this summit.
Maduro said in a statement carried by Reuters news agency that the US move not to invite the leaders of the three countries to the summit, which will be held in Los Angeles from the sixth to the tenth of this month, "is an act of discrimination", and that the US administration thus ensured "the failure of the summit."
Maduro praised Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's decision not to attend the summit, describing it as "courageous and clear".
Obrador had said in a statement yesterday, “I will not attend the summit because not all the countries of America were invited to it,” expressing his desire to change the policy that was imposed centuries ago, which is the “policy of exclusion.”
In turn, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Barilla said in a tweet on Twitter that this event constitutes from now on a unilateral failure of neo-liberalism and separates and isolates the United States from the rest of the countries.
Barilla added that Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced in advance his firm decision not to participate in the summit in the event that all leaders of the countries of the Americas did not receive the invitations on an equal footing, adding that "the summit has failed from now on, and it is clear that pressure and blackmail are in it."
The Cuban government condemned yesterday Washington's decision to exclude it, along with Venezuela and Nicaragua, from the Summit of the Americas, stressing that it is an unjustified, arbitrary and undemocratic measure, pointing out that the United States is exploiting its status as a host country to do this, using once again the policy of exclusion to avoid hearing disturbing facts.