Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service reports that the leaders of 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries took part in a virtual summit against inflation, on April 5, called by Mexican President Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Obrador (AMLO).
Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)
The governments of Argentine President Alberto Fern谩ndez and Brazilian President Luiz In谩cio 鈥淟ula鈥 da Silva have officially rejoined the Union of South American Nations, reports Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service.
Emergency summits of the Organisation of American States (OAS), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Bolivarian Alliance of Our Americas (ALBA) have rejected US attacks on Venezuela and offered the South American nation support.
reported that a large majority of delegates at an emergency OAS meeting expressed concern about US President Barack Obama's March 9 鈥渆xecutive order鈥 declaring Venezuela a threat and 鈥渘ational emergency鈥.
A special commission of the two largest associations of Latin American nations, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, which includes all of the Latin America and the Caribbean) and Union of South American Nations(UNASUR, which represents South American countries) met to discuss US attacks on Venezuelan democracy in a February 11 meeting.
Held in Montevideo, Uruguay, to analyse the relationship between the United States and Venezuela as well as the situation inside Venezuela, the joint commission was convened at the request of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
An August 10 summit between recently inaugurated Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has lowered tensions in a region that some believe was on the brink of armed confrontation.
The situation reached boiling point after Colombia鈥檚 July 22 claims in the US-dominated Organisation of American States that Venezuela was 鈥渉arbouring terrorists鈥.