Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that what the U.S. is doing in Cuba and Venezuela "is not democratic."
During his speech on Saturday at the High-Level Forum of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and Africa taking place in Bogotá, Lula reiterated his support for the regimes of Cuba and Venezuela.
"It is not possible, we cannot allow others to think they own us. Look at what they are doing to Cuba right now, look at what they did to Venezuela. That is not democratic," he said.
"In which paragraph, in which article of the United Nations Charter does it say that a president of a country can invade another? In what document in the world is this written? Not even in the Bible," he added.
Regarding Venezuela, Lula believes that "the bombings on Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president cross an unacceptable line."
“These acts represent a grave affront to the sovereignty of Venezuela and an extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community,” he/she considers.
At the same summit, the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parilla, stated that the regime is willing to engage in a “serious dialogue” and “without interference” with the United States,
"We will also be willing to engage in a serious and responsible dialogue with the U.S. government without interference in internal affairs or in the respective political, economic, and social systems," Rodríguez commented during his speech at the High-Level Forum.
In his speech, Rodríguez Parilla exhausted the usual clichés of the regime's propaganda.
He said that Cuba will defend its sovereignty "to the utmost" and criticized the escalation of U.S. sanctions.
For his part, Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated that the United Nations “are no longer effective” as an arbitrator of international conflicts.
“United Nations cannot prevent wars (…) someone could perfectly say that they are no longer useful,” Petro said, in his host speech at the High-Level Forum of CELAC and Africa.
Petro believes that the UN "can enter a paralysis" due to its inability to resolve global issues, especially armed conflicts
"I believe that if we do not want to extend the conflict in the Middle East to a global economic catastrophe, a global social crisis, and a world war, as we have already started to see in the war in Ukraine, humanity must demand together, both in words and in the streets, an immediate ceasefire," the leftist added.
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