Uruguayans in Cuba criticized Lacalle Po for his “intervention” on the island | The repercussions of the harsh speech of the President of Uruguay at the CELAC summit

The Uruguayan community residing in Cuba rejected the “intervention phrases”. Regarding the island of the President of Uruguay, Louis Lacalle Bo, during the Sixth Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Held in Mexico. Saturday Lacalle Poe criticized the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela for “not respecting human rights”. His words elicited a harsh response from the Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, Who is the Giving him “ignorance of reality” He recommended that he “listen to his people” after the successful opposition campaign to hold a Referendum In order to remove items from Urgent Considerations Act (LUC), economically and socially backward.

“We have rights that many would like to have.”

“The blunt and false accusations he exposed there embarrassed us,” emphasized the observation of Uruguayans in Cuba, regarding the words of Lacale Po in Mexico. They criticized the president’s disrespect for “the people and his government who welcomed us as children” and added: “enjoyWe have rights that many people in the world would like to have“.

The statement issued via the Facebook account of the former Uruguayan ambassador to Cuba, Eduardo Laurier, acknowledges that Lacalle Poe “did not speak on behalf of the people of Uruguay, who are friends and brothers of the Cuban people” and concludes with a message to Cuba of “our enduring respect and gratitude”.

Lacalle Po’s words resonated with the Uruguayan opposition. “The president is making a grave mistake to mix his personal or party position with that of our country in a regional forum like the 2021 CELAC summit,” said Broad Front deputy, Daniel Kajiani. The legislator also Petiana Diaz “It must be a lie that President Lacalle Poe shows his face to teach respect for human rights at the CELAC Summit, while this is happening in Uruguayan prisons,” he wrote on Twitter. Diaz referred to the case – A detainee who was held by his other colleagues for 40 days in a cell, naked, tortured and in a state of malnutrition..

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The disagreements at the Celak meeting began when the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benitez, confirmed that he does not recognize Nicolás Maduro as President of Venezuela. “I say to the President of Paraguay: Set the date, place and time for a discussion on democracy in Paraguay, Venezuela, and Latin America! Set yours, President Lacalle, the date and place!” Mature before plenary.

In tune with his Paraguayan counterpart, Lacalle Poe said so Participation in the summit did not mean “satisfaction” with countries “not a full-fledged democracy, repressive devices are used to silence protests.In his speech at the Sixth Regional Summit, the right-wing leader said: “We seriously see what’s happening in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.”.

Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-CanelHe asserted that Lacalle Poe’s word “indicates his ignorance of reality.” What’s more He advised his Uruguayan counterpart to “listen to his people who have amassed more than 700,000 signatures against LUC”. Lacalle Pou “imposed and changed the conditions for adjusting fuel prices and evacuation, reducing the role of public companies, and amending criminal procedures.”

For Díaz-Canel, it’s a “neoliberal package or package”. “With neoliberalism, what multiplied is instability, speculation, foreign debt, frequent financial crises, poverty, inequality…and The chasm between the rich north and the deprived south“First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.

“Fortunately, the opposition has the democratic resources in my country to complain. That is the big difference with the Cuban regime,” Lacalle Po responded when exercising his right of reply, reading part of the song “Patria y vida,” an anthem. subordinate Historic July protests in Cuba. “It seems President Lacalle has very bad taste in music. This song is a lie and a construct among some artists against the Cuban Revolution,” Diaz-Canel responded attractively.