Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua will not attend the inauguration of the elected president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, which will take place on March 1 in Montevideo.
According to information fromVoa News, Lacalle himself confirmed that Miguel Díaz Canel, Nicolás Maduro and Daniel Ortega, rulers that he does not consider democratic, will not be invited to the event.
“We invite the embassies, all the embassies that are based in the country, simply with respect to the leaders as we have the right to make the invitations that we deem appropriate; “That is the criterion,” he said.
The future president met last Thursday, January 23, with the United States Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, David Hale, as well aswith Cuban opponent Rosa María Payá, from the Cuba Decide platform, who thanked him for his support to the cause of the Cuban people.
The absence of the three socialist leaders from the ceremony is in line with Lacalle's electoral campaign, who stated all the time that his country "should move away from dictatorships."
The leader ofconservative National Party won the November 2019 elections, ending 15 consecutive years in power of the center-left Broad Front Government.
In one of the first acts he presided over after being elected, the president assured that he would have good relations with the governments of the region, although he specified that he would call dictators in Latin America as such.
“It is clear that in foreign relations (...) we are not going to make ourselves feel ashamed. It is clear what we are going to do:We are going to call dictators dictators"We are not going to find a way back," he emphasized.
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