By Agencia EFE - 12:00
Playa del Carmen ( Mexico), Feb 23 (EFE) .- The creation of a Community of Latin American and Caribbean without a U.S. presence and Canada marked the Rio Group summit in Mexico today closed with signs of internal disagreements, despite the official message of unity.
The leaders gathered for two days in the resort of Playa del Carmen in the Mexican Caribbean, approved a total of ten statements among which the implementation of the new body "itself as a regional forum that all states, "said Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The intention of the participants is that this entity, which will be made to work for that is formed on the tops of Venezuela (2011) and Chile (2012), assume the "heritage" of the Rio Group and the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean (CALC).
host President stated that "while not culminate the process of establishing the Community of Latin American and Caribbean" will remain the Rio Group and the CALC uniformly with their working methods, practices and procedures to ensure compliance with its mandates.
In his speeches today, the leaders of Cuba, Raul Castro, and Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, agreed on the "historic" agreement and, while the first affirmed that they "would not make sense" delay the process, the second stressed that serve to win his personality as a region. "
But the discourse of unity was to be broken again after the verbal confrontation of the presidents of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, who scored the opening day.
The heated incident began when Uribe likened the freezing of relations between Colombia and Venezuela to the U.S. blockade on Cuba remains.
Uribe snapped "it boy!", To which Chavez responded with a "Fuck you!" words that immediately caught the attention of the media and internet forums.
This event was discussed today by Bolivian President Evo Morales, for whom it was Uribe who brought Chavez to an intervention "surprise" that in his opinion means that " U.S. officials are trying to bog down " creation of the new organization.
Just today it was announced that the president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez, chairman of the so-called Group of Friends of Venezuela and Colombia to mediate differences between the two countries brought to light again at the luncheon held at the luxurious Grand Candles on the Riviera Maya.
hours after this, Uribe went positions with another neighbor, Ecuador, whose president, Rafael Correa, ratified the will to move forward in the normalization of relations nearly two years after the bombing of a Colombian rebel camp in Ecuador's territory that caused the rift between the two Governments.
Among other resolutions adopted at the Summit of the Unit include the declaration of solidarity with Haiti, which calls for ending the U.S. blockade on Cuba and defending the rights of Argentina over the Falkland Islands off the UK .
more critical discourse of the day Closing the outgoing president came from Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, who lamented that Latin American countries are "sclerotic and hypertrophied" and criticized that Honduras was not invited to the Summit to continue outside the Organization of American States (OAS).
According to Arias, "regrettable" that the summit, called for "unity" of Latin America and the Caribbean, "to come together countries that are armed against each other," and denounced as it has in the past, the presence of a "war arms" on the continent.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Chile, Mexico took over as head of the Pro Tempore Secretariat Rio Group in order to make the Community of Latin American and Caribbean in a fundamental political forum in the region, as stated by the president, Michele Bachelet.
The Chilean president, who left of their counterparts in the region it will transfer power to Sebastian Pinera in March, promised to work hard to build "a unified voice in the region" and because the new body to be "inclusive and representative. "
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