The summit convening in Los Angeles next week is yet another proof of the authoritarian and anti-democratic character of the elites that rule the United States. The exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the meeting from the outset confirms this. This is an extremely serious fact, which leads to other very serious exclusions as well.The United States has disregarded the consensus of non-exclusion that had been reached, when Cuba had already participated in the VII and VIII versions of the Summit of the Americas in Panama and Lima after a general clamor of the governments and peoples of the region. This means that Washington does not understand, or does not want to realize, that the era of neo-liberal hegemony, when it could make and break countries and governments as it pleased, is over. Nor can it stand the fact that the peoples’ rejection of neo-liberalism and a clear trend towards the election of progressive governments, that are now present in Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, Chile and knocking on the door in Colombia with Petro, winning the first round, and in Brazil with Lula, whom all the poll have already declared him as the absolute winner, are once again gaining strength -as in the late 1990s and late 2000s- but now with more depth.  Of course, to this must be added Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and the 6 brave Eastern Caribbean States that are part of ALBA, all of which share many ideas and foreign policy projections with the above mentioned and are now displaying a clear and accurate view of the current world at the IX ALBA Summit.

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