Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 11 (International observation) The Americas summit ended sadly, and the US hegemony was on the decline
Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Ye, Wang Ying, Deng Xianlai
The 9th Americas Summit came to an end in Los Angeles, USA on the 10th. The U.S. refusal to invite the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the summit has been criticized by leaders of many American countries. Many countries boycotted the meeting, making this meeting the least number of leaders since the founding of the Americas Summit. Analysts pointed out that the hegemonic practices such as double-standard democracy and gross interference that the United States has pursued in Latin America for a long time have aroused strong dissatisfaction among countries in the region.
Domineering will provoke public anger
During the summit, the United States pledged to strengthen cooperation with countries in the region in economic and trade, food security, public health, climate change and immigration issues. On the last day of the summit, the United States also touted a series of immigration plans, saying that these plans will take measures such as strengthening cooperation to solve the current Latin American immigration problem. But policy analysts have generally questioned whether the plans will have a significant impact. At the same time, the so-called immigration protection proposed by the United States at the summit was also regarded by public opinion as an attempt to shirk responsibility and make relevant Latin American countries take more responsibility for solving the immigration problem. Former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda pointed out that the summit “has nothing to say regarding substantive content”.
In fact, before the summit was held, the United States was embarrassed by its hypocritical and domineering actions. The US refused to invite the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to attend the summit, citing the so-called “democracy issue”. Many countries in Latin America were strongly dissatisfied with this. Mexican President Lopez announced a boycott, and countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sent only low-level delegations to the meeting.
Argentine President Fernandez has repeatedly stated that he chose to participate in order to “bring the voices of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the summit”.
Mexican Foreign Minister Ebrard, who attended the meeting in place of the president, said the exclusion at the Americas summit was a “serious mistake” and that no one has the right to do so. Mexico does not accept unilaterally decided interference. Belize Prime Minister Bricegno described the U.S. government’s exclusion of individual countries from the Americas summit as “unforgivable” and “incomprehensible”. He said that now is a critical moment for the future destiny of the Western Hemisphere, but the countries in the region are still divided.
Double-standard democracy is hard to convince
During the summit, leaders of some Latin American countries who were rejected by the US side from outside the door of the Americas Summit also responded to the US’s practice of holding the “Monroe Doctrine”, playing with double standards of democracy, grossly interfering and attempting to control the American countries. attack.
Cuban President Diaz-Canel said in the capital Havana on the 8th that the United States has always regarded itself as a “democracy” and a “human rights defender”, but it does not care regarding the urgent problems that the people of Latin America need to solve. The United States attempts to use the Summit of the Americas as a tool to control the Americas and create regional divisions and hinder the process of regional integration.
Nicaragua President’s foreign policy and international affairs adviser Valdrak Yancic told Xinhua that true democracy is built on the rights of the people, not on capital monopoly, market monopoly and dollar hegemony. American-style democracy is only “superficial democracy”. The United States has no moral superiority. It has no right to accuse and attempt to change a country that realizes true democracy by guaranteeing the rights of its people, and it has no right to impose illegal sanctions on them. Such behavior itself is anti-democratic.
Venezuelan President Maduro said a few days ago that the Summit of the Americas was not only openly boycotted by many regional countries because of the issue of participation, but also the theme and agenda of the meeting were not closely related to issues such as poverty and employment that the people of the Americas were concerned regarding, so the summit was doomed to fail. .
Lopez issued a public statement saying he refused to attend the summit in protest of the “old politics of perpetuating interventionism” by the United States. He called for an immediate end to interventionist acts such as sanctions, blockades, and discrimination, and called on American countries to unite and reject exclusion.
American hegemony in decline
The theme of this year’s Summit of the Americas is “Building a Sustainable, Resilient and Just Future”. However, Latin American analysts pointed out that for the United States, which continues to pursue the “Monroe Doctrine”, the US government only focuses on achieving its own diplomatic goals at the summit, ignoring the major concerns of regional countries. The double standards and domineering behavior shown by the United States at this summit aroused opposition from many Latin American countries, deepening the contradiction between the United States and Latin American countries, and the continuous decline of American leadership and credibility in the region. The decline of American hegemony is an irreversible trend. .
The New York Times article pointed out that the summit of the Americas was originally intended to demonstrate the cooperation between American countries, but the absence of leaders from many countries has called into question the effectiveness of the summit to resolve substantive issues, and also exposed regional differences. The nation’s willingness to resist U.S. leadership has grown.
In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, Venezuelan international relations expert Diego Squeira said that the lack of substantive results of the summit shows the decline of US leadership and credibility in this region. Investment has deepened the rift between the United States and Latin America, and it is difficult for the United States to use the Summit of the Americas to manipulate Latin America. (Participating reporters: Lin Zhaohui, Chao Dynasty, Zhu Yubo, Wu Hao, Bian Zhuodan, Li Baodong, Wang Zhongyi)
