Latin American Unity Summit: Yes to Castro, no to Lobo

Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

The Rio Group is met in Mexico in the so-called "Unity Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean”. This meeting will discuss a series of regional issues, but it is noteworthy that the president of Honduras was not invited for failing to meet democratic standards of some of the participating countries. Contradictorily, while they deny the participation of Honduras in the forum, they celebrate Cuba's intervention.

Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Uruguay, who do not recognize the government of Honduras and reject its participation in the Cancun meeting, forget that in this country the people elected their representatives by universal suffrage. However, in Cuba, a regime has based its authority solely on repression, and its current president received the power by direct appointment of the former dictator.

So it seems that for many Latin American politicians is more democratic the appointment of Raul Castro, than the election of Porfirio Lobo. In other words, according to their understanding of democratic standards and international law, the will of Fidel Castro deserves more recognition than the will of Honduran people.

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