“Unasur Resurrected: Petro Proposes Name Change for South American Nations Association”

2023-05-31 00:46:00

Petro wrote on his social networks that he has asked to change the name of the group to the Association of South American Nations, with the aim of “guaranteeing pluralism and permanence over time.”

In this way, the Latin American country will return to this organization made up of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.

The announcement was made following the end of the Meeting of Presidents of South America in the Brazilian capital, which was also attended by the Colombian president along with 10 other heads of state. On behalf of Peru, Dina Boluarte might not attend due to internal legal problems, but representing her was her president of the Council of Ministers, Alberto Otárola.

In that meeting —in which the diplomatic welcome to Venezuela in the region— It was agreed to put aside ideological differences in order to have better mechanisms for economic, commercial and cultural cooperation.

The Brazilian President, Lula da Silvaassured during the meeting that Unasur must be resurrected.

“We have no time to lose, South America once once more has before it the opportunity to follow the path of union, and it is not necessary to start from scratch,” he declared, adding that “Unasur is a collective heritage, it is in force (…) it is important to resume its construction process,” said the president.

In August 2018, Colombia made official his departure from Unasur, under the argument that the country might not “continue being part of an institution that has been the biggest accomplice of the Venezuelan dictatorship.” In that year the president governed ivan duke.

“Unasur is an institution that has lent itself, with its silence and often with its complacency, so that the brutal treatment of the citizens of the Venezuelan dictatorship will not be denounced,” said Duke at the time.

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