Is Washington’s Order Called a Consensus?

When Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that no consensus was reached to invite Cuba to the Sixth Summit of the Americas, to be held in Colombia in April, he gave a nice nickname to Washington’s order. On March 1, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Congress members Ileana Ros and Bill Johnson that there is “no intention” to invite Cuba. Then, in Honduras, Vice President Joe Biden said that Cuba will not attend. Those are the exponents of democracy and that is the consensus!

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez respectfully and cordially qualified the tone in which Santos spoke in Havana (four days ago) about there not being a consensus to invite Cuba.

But Santos obeys his masters. In today’s government, the unpresentable Álvaro Uribe Vélez drove the neoliberal project as economy minister, and then became the aggressor accomplished as the minister of defense.

One must note here that in this situation, the importance becomes all the more clear of organizations such as ALBA and CELAC, which result from the efforts of integration and the struggle for sovereignty. Another America is possible, and political progress is very necessary.

The Sixth Summit of the Americas will be the first of that name since June 2009, when the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) revoked resolution VI, which excluded Cuba from the Inter-American system. The expulsion was ordered in January 1962 at the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Foreign Ministers in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

The United States accepted the reintegration of Cuba (which refused to return to the bosom of the OAS) because it could not hold down the fort, as outdated and outrageous as it was. However, it maintains the lock and prevents Cuba from being invited to the summit.

There is a long list of anachronisms: OAS still exists, and it is manipulated from North America. Santos smiles with Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro, repeating what Clinton and Biden have said. Again, the masters display their arrogance and pose as loyal servants with a drawn smile and hidden tail, but one can see the rope around their neck.