“Latin
American countries should discuss removing all US military bases from
their soil, a top official of integration organization UNASUR [Union
of South American Nations] suggested. The issue may be discussed next
month at the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Panama. The Summit of
the Americas on April 10 and 11 is to be attended by regional
leaders, with 31 nations already confirming attendance. UNASUR
Secretary-General Ernesto Samper suggested that the summit would be a
good place to 'reassess relations between the US and South America.'
[...] He added that the bases were 'a leftover from the days of the
Cold War and other clashes.'”
“Samper
also blasted Washington’s habit of taking unilateral steps to
pursue its goals in Latin America. The latest example is the US
declaration of Venezuela as a threat to its national security, he
said.”
“The
Panama meeting has already been declared historic as it will be the
first one attended by Cuba since 1962, when it was expelled from the
Organization of American States (OAS), the event’s organizing body.
In 2014, the US and Canada blocked the proposal to readmit Cuba,
which drew criticism from UNASUR and a boycott of last year’s
summit of the Americas by Ecuador and Nicaragua.”
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