Cuban President Announces He Will Not Attend Covers of the Americas

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced that he will not attend the Summit of the Americas, but that the voice of his government will be heard as in other years.
“I can assure you that in no case will I attend.” As always happened in the past, Cuba’s voice will be heard at the IX Summit of the Americas,” the president tweeted.
Díaz-Canel said that from the beginning, the United States designed the summit so that it was not inclusive, this, despite the claim of some nations.

“It is known that the U.S. government conceived from the beginning that the Summit of the Americas was not inclusive. It was his intention to exclude several countries despite the strong regional demand for an end to the exclusions,” the president wrote on his Twitter account.

It is known that the U.S. government conceived from the beginning that the Summit of the Americas was not inclusive.
It was their intention to exclude several countries, including #Cuba, despite strong regional calls for an end to exclusions. (1/4)
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) May 25, 2022

In a thread of this social network, the Cuban president thanked the nations that fought for Cuba to present itself to the event, which will be held from June 6 to 10 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

“We appreciate the courageous and dignified position of the countries that have raised their voices against exclusions. We share the position of the region’s leaders who have firmly claimed that everyone must be invited on an equal footing,” he wrote.
Mexico’s government was one of the nations that tried to pressure the United States to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to the summit, but it was unsuccessful.
Even President Andrés Manuel López Obrador conditioned his attendance if the U.S. government did not extend the invitation to those three nations.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega also announced that he will not attend the event because it is something that “does not interest him.”

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Original source in Spanish