"Without Cuba, every single Caribbean country would have had great difficulty in fighting this Covid pandemic."
Dominica Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, thanks "heroic people" of Cuba and Venezuela for their generosity. Skerrit was speaking at The VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States took place on 18 September 2021, in the National Palace of Mexico in Mexico City.
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The VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States took place on 18 September 2021, in the National Palace of Mexico in Mexico City.
The XXI summit of foreign ministers of the CELAC took place on 24 July 2021, at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, in the context of the commemoration of the 238th aniversary of the birth of Simón Bolívar. The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, proposed the creation of a multilateral organization resembling the European Union to resolve conflicts in the region, promote unity in the American Continent, and negotiate with other regional economic blocs.
At this summit the succession of the Pro Tempore president of CELAC will be decided, with both Argentina and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as successor candidates.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)[a] is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states thought out on February 23, 2010, at the Rio Group–Caribbean Community Unity Summit, and created on December 3, 2011, in Caracas, Venezuela, with the signature of The Declaration of Caracas. It consists of 32 sovereign countries in the Americas. Due to the focus of the organization on Latin American and Caribbean countries, other countries and territories in the Americas, Canada and the United States, as well as the overseas territories in the Americas of France (Overseas departments and territories of France), the Netherlands (Dutch Caribbean), Denmark (Greenland) and the United Kingdom (British Overseas Territories) are not included.
CELAC is an example of a decade-long push for deeper integration within Latin America. CELAC was created to deepen Latin American integration and by some to reduce the significant influence of the United States on the politics and economics of Latin America. It is seen as an alternative to the Organization of American States (OAS), the regional body that was founded by United States and 21 other Latin American nations originally as a countermeasure to potential Soviet influence in the region.
CELAC is the successor of the Rio Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development (CALC). In July 2010, CELAC selected President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez and President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, as co-chairs of the forum to draft statutes for the organization. Wikipedia
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