The first days of the annual meeting of the Rio Group, which has been held in Cancun (Mexico) have made several significant developments worthy of note ... First, member countries have agreed to create a new regional organization that can serve as a substitute for the current OAS, an organization that does not have the presence of the powers of the North. U.S. and Canada have been excluded from the new body to be established officially at the next summit of the Group held in Caracas. Later, during a lunch between the Presidents of the various Member States, Chavez and Uribe have been involved in an altercation that occurred points to a few years ago between the Venezuelan President and the King of Spain. Uribe scolded rudely Chavez Venezuela's trade policies toward Colombia, and Chavez responded by sending him to hell. Cuban President Raul Castro, had to intercede to prevent the discussion is out of hand. And escalates the confrontation between the governments of Venezuela and Colombia, in a new imperial lackey Colombian provocation to the Chavez government, which Hugo Chávez has responded with determination and courage that perhaps you missed the day the Bourbon told him to shut up.
Creating new regional organization without the U.S. or Canada
Thus, the 32 nations present gave the nod to the creation of this new regional bloc to Latin American countries are one voice in multilateral fora, setting clear differences with respect to the United States, which had hitherto claimed to have a dominant role in the framework of the OAS. This new group will work in parallel with the Organization of American States (OAS), although some presidents of the region is seen as the natural replacement for it.
The new body will meet at the Rio Group and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and run parallel to the Organization of American States (OAS), criticized in his role as guardian of regional democracy after its unsuccessful efforts to reverse a coup of State in Honduras. Although his birth was officially approved yesterday by signing the agreement that gives life, yet it remains a long process until all member nations to reach the necessary consensus on rules and regulations to govern the internal operation the new regional organization. It is expected the final founding agreement signed in the next summit of the Rio Group, which will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2011, and from which the new body would begin its work.
Raúl Castro, president of Cuba, the only Latin American country at the summit that is not immersed in the current OAS after their expulsion ago decades as a country "communist", considered the creation of this new body as a historical event, a fact that transcend history and remain in the annals of the continent as the birth of a new direction for the region. "The decision to establish the commission of Latin American and the Caribbean is of historical significance, for what I believe are ripe for the establishment of a purely Latin American agency representing the 33 nations of Latin America and the Caribbean," the Cuban leader. Showdown
Chavez and Uribe at the Presidents dinner For
Moreover, during the day yesterday, the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, triggered an altercation with the Venezuelan president during lunch of the Presidents of the Rio Group Summit, by equating the Colombian president for trade relations between the two countries with the U.S. blockade on Cuba remains.
face of requests from his Colombian counterpart, Chavez said that trade between the two nations has increased eightfold since coming to power in 1999, when trade amounted to 1,600 million versus $ 7,900 million 2008 dollars .
According to sources, Venezuelan President Uribe interrupted when the Chavez defended his position and asked to leave to finish his speech. Uribe remained interrupted the Venezuelan leader, until Chavez, who returned to ask him to leave the end of his speech, and to be unable to achieve calm the president, he snapped a resounding "Fuck you."
These same sources who attended the luncheon also explained that President Raul Castro, had to mediate between the Colombian and Venezuelan leaders to end the discussion.
According to Costa Rican daily La Nacion, after the intervention of Cuban President calm returned to the meeting, but the differences moved to another room, where the host of the summit, Felipe Calderon, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez tried to make peace between Uribe and Chavez.
Subsequently, according to international press reports, the Mexican president sent a message to the media in which he claimed that Chavez and Uribe had agreed to redirect their differences through respectful dialogue.
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