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Fidel Castro: Why is Cuba Being Excluded?
Fidel Castro: Why is Cuba Being Excluded?
Havana - Leader of the Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro said that the Organization of
American States (OAS) is dictating
guidelines, as the permanent secretary for
the Summit of the Americas, fulfilling the
role assigned to it by former US President
George W. Bush.
This assertion is contained in an article
titled "Why is Cuba Being Excluded?,"
released on CubaDebate website, with details
of a meeting held here with Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario
Murillo.
I chatted with Daniel at length about the
“famous” Summit of the Americas, which will
be taking place on April the 17th, 18th and
19th in Port of Spain, the capital of
Trinidad and Tobago, writes Fidel Castro.
Those summit meetings have a history which
has certainly been rather dismal. The first
took place in Miami, capital of the
counterrevolution, the blockade and the
dirty war against Cuba. That summit was held
on the 10th and 11th of December in 1994. It
had been convened by Bill Clinton, elected
president of the United States in November
of 1992, he noted.
The Cuban leader said that Daniel Ortega
gave him a large number of paragraphs under
discussion regarding the final declaration
to the coming summit in Port of Spain.
"Surely there are a great number of
inadmissible concepts. It will be a litmus
test for the peoples of the Caribbean and
Latin America. Could it be a step backwards?
Blockade and also exclusion after 50 years
of resistance,? Fidel Castro wondered.
And then he asks "Who will assume those
responsibilities? Who now demands our
extinction? Could it be that they do not
understand that the days of treaties
excluding our people are a thing of the
past?"
"There will be important reservations in
that declaration signed by heads of state so
that it can be understood that in spite of
the changes attained through tough talks,
there are ideas which are unacceptable to
them," writes the Cuban leader.
"Cuba has always shown its willingness, in
new circumstances, to provide maximum
cooperation with the diplomatic activities
of the countries of the Caribbean and Latin
America. Those who ought to, know this well
but we cannot be asked to keep silent in the
face of unnecessary and inadmissible
concessions."
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