The Organization of American States considers Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to be members. The host country elects the guests to the summit

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are not part of the Organization of American States (OAS), so they cannot be invited to the Ninth Summit of the Americas to be held in Los Angeles in June 2022, according to social media posts that have been shared more than 1,600 times since last May 11. Tickets denounced the “ignorance” of Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who demanded that no country be excluded from the event. However, OAS sources confirmed to AFP Factual that the three mentioned countries are considered members of the organization and that invitations to attend the summit correspond to the host country.

The pieces started turning Facebook s Twitter A day after Lopez Obrador announced that will be absent Summit of the Americas in 2022 and will send a delegate in case the United States decides to exclude any country in the region.

Lopez Obrador previously stated complaint The United States excluded her from the preparations for the summit. On the other hand, Washington exclude Invite the island nation, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to the meeting in Los Angeles, which will take place June 8-10.

heads Bolivia and HondurasLuis Ars and Chiomara Castro also demanded that all countries on the continent be included, while Chilean Foreign Minister, Antonia Origola, requested that the invitation be “as wide as possible”.

Who is organizing the Summit of the Americas?

Summits in the Americas are Regular meetings bringing together the democratically elected Heads of State and Government of the Americas to discuss and make decisions on issues of relevance to the region.it reads in website Officer these meetings.

The county administration From the United States refers to: “Heads of State and Government, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and other senior officials of the governments of the States of the Americas shall attend the Summit of the Americas and associated forums at the invitation of the host government.”.

“Operation Summit of the Americas brings together two hemispheres, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but remains an operation independent of any other international organization”Determines the US government.

The responsibility for organizing the meeting rests with the host country, which for this purpose chairs the Summit Implementation Review Team (serge).

For their part, international and regional organizations such as the Organization of American States and the World Bank provide technical support at the Summits of the Americas through work group set of peaks.

The Organization of American States is also responsible for Protect The “institutional memory” Of these regional meetings since 1998. The region established by the Organization of American States to achieve this goal is currently called the Summits of the General Secretariat of the Americas.

A spokesperson for the organization responded to a frank question from AFP about whether the Organization of American States is organizing the Summit of the Americas: “don’t do”.

Americas Summits are almost held every three years Since the first meeting in 1994, in Miami.

Members of the Organization of American States

Contrary to what the interventions claim, OAS sources told AFP that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are members of the organization.

“The three countries belong to the Organization of American States and among these three countries was the last founding of Cuba”confirmed to AFP facts Bullitt RiverAcademician at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Cuba was excluded from the Organization of American States at the Eighth Meeting of the Consultation of Foreign Ministers, held in the city of Punta del Este in Uruguay, between January 22 and 31, 1962. On that occasion, it was decided to expel Cuba from the International Union. American system plot: “The current government in Cuba, which has officially defined itself as a Marxist-Leninist government, is not compatible with the principles and purposes of the inter-American system”.

This decision excluded Cuba from the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Defense Council, among other institutions.

The 3 June 2009The General Assembly of the Organization of American States unanimously rescinded this resolution.

Cuba’s participation in the Organization of American States will be the result of a dialogue process initiated at the request of the Cuban Government and in accordance with the practices, purposes and principles of the Organization of American States.Then he announced the meeting of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

However, this decision does not mean the return of Cuba to the organization. Havana qualified like “Great victory” The decision of the Organization of American States to open the door to him after 47 years of exclusion, but he insisted on his refusal to return to the Forum unchanged.

“It is a great victory for the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as for the people of Cuba. [pero] What happened does not change at all what Cuba believed yesterday, yesterday and today.”said then-President of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon.

at July 2021Carlos de Cosio, Director General of the United States at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated: Cuba does not and will not belong to the Organization of American States..

Despite its position on the Organization of American States, Cuba has twice participated in the Summits of the Americas. The first in 2015, in Panama, and the second in Lima, 2018.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido (left) with OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro at the organization’s headquarters in Washington, February 6, 2020. (AFP / MANDEL NGAN)

“In the case of Venezuela, what happened is that the United States denied the legitimacy of the government of Nicolás Maduro” Academic Rivero explained that due to the political weight of the United States in the Organization of American States, the body does not recognize Maduro either. This caused this, despite Venezuela’s announcement of its decision to withdraw from the Organization of American States April 26, 2017the process has not been formalized.

according to Article 143 from the charter of the Organization of American States, so the official exit from Venezuela should have been in April 2019. But in January of that year, the Secretary-General of the Organization, Louis AlmagroJuan Guaido, the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, was recognized as president.

On January 22 of that year, Guaidó issued an agreement to keep Venezuela in the Organization of American States, which Almagro endorsed on his Twitter account:

On April 10, 2019, days before the end of the process of exiting the Organization of American States initiated by Nicolas Maduro, the permanent council of the organization accepted the envoy of Guaido, Gustavo Tarryas the representative of Venezuela.

Since then, OAS to get to know Guaido as interim president and Tare ambassador appointed by the Venezuelan National Assembly for the organization.

A member of the Nicaraguan special forces stands guard outside the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Managua, on April 25, 2022 (AFP/Oswaldo RIVAS)

In the case of Nicaragua, the government of Daniel Ortega start One-sided, the process of leaving the Organization of American States after the institution ignored Ortega’s re-election on November 7, 2021.

On April 24, the government of Nicaragua withdrawal Credentials of its representatives before the Organization of American States and closing of the Organization’s headquarters in Managua. On May 14, the Organization of American States convicted Occupying its offices in that city and reminding that Nicaragua will continue its membership until November 2023.

invitations

Entries posted on social networks add that countries that are not members of the Organization of American States cannot participate in the Summit of the Americas, because it is an event of the organization.

However, a spokesperson for the Organization of American States told AFP the facts: “Invitations to the summit are an invitation to the host country.” He added that the Organization of American States is not organizing the event.

Who organizes the summit? “He is the one who ends up giving some political speeches that refuse the participation of states.”The academy concluded UNAM Rivero.