President Rafael Correa of Ecuador reiterated his recent call at the Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) not to attend another Summit of the Americas if Cuba is not among the guests.
At his Saturday weekly briefing, this time in south Quito, Correa called unbelievable to convene a Summit of the Americas in the 21st century excluding Cuba.
Some superpowers claim that some are Americans and others just don't match. Says who Cuba is not America? Who decided to picture Cuba inconsistent with a democracy? Has Cuba ever led an invasion? Has Cuba ever looted anyone?, wondered the president.
"I can mention few countries who have led several invasions and have practiced looting more than once," he stressed. Who appointed them as judges for good and evil?, he stressed, adding this Neocolonialism whose end is now urged in the 21st Century.
"We do not wish to hurt our brother government in Colombia, the host of the Summit in April in Cartagena de Indias; We wish -otherwise- to open a dialogue and we proposed the ALBA member countries not to attend the Summit without Cuba.
Correa whipped a communiqué from the US State Department through which Cuba does not meet the terms to attend the Summit, and insisted to wonder "who appointed them as judge for good and evil?. Enough with them," he stressed amid strong applauses.
They told us they would take this opportunity to dialogue with the United States, he said, but then suggested the meeting should be called "some countries' dialogue with the United States."
Correa reaffirmed that if this will be a Summit of the Americas it should include every country in Latin America, and mentioned the common purpose of creating economic facilities to boost development, not for the transnationals, least of "every man for himself", as we have seen as the aftermath of the Free Trade Agreements and their proclaimed free competition, he said.