CELAC Unity: Minority siding with US Imperialism
The CELAC countries have an existing agreement that defines them, by treaty, as a non-nuclear ‘Zone of Peace’.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro released a draft statement on X/Twitter today condemning “extra-regional military deployment in the region”, approved by the majority of countries in Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), but revealed that a minority held up adoption of the statement. CELAC, which was founded in Playa del Carmen, Mexico in 2011 to provide an alternative forum for countries of the Americas to discuss and deal with regional issues outside of the Organization of American States (referred to as “The Yankee Ministry of Colonies” by Fidel Castro and headquartered in Washington, DC), does not include the USA nor Canada, and operates on a consensus principle. The lack of a consensus decision means that the draft statement may reflect the positions of the signatory countries, but does not represent CELAC as an organization.
Although the draft statement condemns “extra-regional military deployment,” an obvious reference to the USA’s deployment of advanced warships and long-range aircraft in the Caribbean near Venezuelan waters and the recent air strike carried out against a boat which reportedly murdered 11 people, the statement does not identify the United States of America as being responsible for that deployment, possibly indicating further divisions within even the majority CELAC countries over how to confront (or not confront) US imperialism.
During a joint conference yesterday in Mexico City with Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs (and awarded zionist) Juan Ramón de la Fuente announcing a security cooperation agreement, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed that the illegal air strike wchich murdered eleven people was authorized by US President Donald Trump, saying, “Instead of interdicting it, on the President’s orders, we blew it up. And it will happen again. Maybe it’s happening right now. I don’t know.”
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad and Tobago, which did not sign the CELAC statement, released a statement that said, “I, along with most of the country, am happy that the US naval deployment is having success in their mission. I have no sympathy for traffickers; the US military should kill them all violently.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has played a leading role regionally in confronting the genocide carried out by Israel recently, as well as standing against US imperialist maneuvers in Latin America and the Caribbean, tweeting today, “This is the statement from the vast majority of the members of CELAC, who sign for peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is not a CELAC statement because a minority, which I add, opposed it.”
The signatories are Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Santa Lucía, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.”
“Countries that did not support the statement are Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Jamaica, Paraguay, Perú, and Trinidad & Tobago.”
Note: None of those non-signatories would surprise anyone knowledgeable about the LAC region. It is to be expected, as these are the countries that quite regularly vote pro-US at UN organizations. The moment I saw the speculation (from Venezuelan social circles) that the boat was on its way to Trinidad & Tobago, I suspected that this story was not made up out of whole cloth, or rather, that it was a fully made-up story. I would not be surprised if the Trinidad & Tobago authorities were instructed exactly what to say. It is a regular route. A little boat would have no qualms taking it. The 11 people on board may have been Venezuelans trying to get away from possible war or trying to become migrants. They may have been Trinidadians or Tobagans going home. If I saw that boat while sailing in the area, I would have thought that they were tourists on the way to a reef to dive. There would almost certainly be some drugs on board, but nothing worthwhile or economically significant: perhaps local small trade. The little boat was certainly not on its way to the US to sell a massive stock of drugs. It was blown up between Venezuela (we think) and heading to Trinidad & Tobago (we think), according to the locals who know where the boats go. Strange that we have no coordinates of where this little boat was bombed into the deep by the US War Department as an example of the so-called veracity of their narrative.
Here is a just in update:
🇨🇳🇻🇪 China installs the first floating platform for the extraction of oil in Venezuela's Maracaibo Lake. pic.twitter.com/IyeRQbJfbI
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