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'Club of ideological friends': the harsh definition that Luis Lacalle Pou made about CELAC

2023-01-24T18:39:03.825Z


The Uruguayan president denounced that some of the nations that are part of the forum do not respect human rights.


The president of Uruguay,

Luis Lacalle Pou,

 warned on Tuesday that organizations such as CELAC cannot

"have the character of a club of ideological friends"

.

It was a direct criticism of the presence of representatives from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba in the forum that takes place in Buenos Aires. 

Lacalle Pou opined that on numerous occasions

the speeches

that are carried out in forums such as CELAC are not taken into action.

In this sense, he stressed that it was time to put theory into action.

“In order for this type of forum to survive ,”

he continued, “hopes must be generated

.

And the hopes are generated on the path traveled, on the practice of the action”.

The president warned that organizations such as

CELAC cannot "have the character of a club of ideological friends."

On the other hand, without making explicit reference to any country, the president maintained that some of the nations that are part of CELAC do not respect human rights.

“There is talk of respect for democracy, institutions and human rights (in the joint document that the members of the bloc will sign).

But

there are countries here that do not respect democracy, nor the institutions

, ”said Lacalle Pou.

At the previous CELAC summit in 2021, the president made this same criticism and referred specifically to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

Mario Abdo Benitez asked to address the situation of the Venezuelan diaspora

For his part, the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benitez, urged the leaders who attend CELAC to address

the situation experienced by the Venezuelan diaspora, a reality that "cannot be ignored",

but must be addressed" and to the one that must be "looked for a solution", he emphasized.

In his speech before the CELAC plenary, he called for "sincere dialogue" and recalled that "just as" the acts of violence that occurred in Peru and Brazil are

worrying, "the mass exodus" from Venezuela "is also" worrying.

"We cannot look to the side, when more than seven million Venezuelans have left their homes asking for refuge" in the region, recalled the Paraguayan president in what was his last intervention in this forum, since his term ends this year.

In addition, Benítez recalled that, according to UNHCR, Venezuelan migration is the second largest external displacement crisis in the world, after Syria.

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