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Caracas.- Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Monday that a Summit of the Americas without Venezuela, which was not invited to the meeting next December, is "anything else", while lashing out at the President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, whom he called a "mafioso" and assured that he received the "order" to leave the South American country out.
"Summit of the Americas? That's not the Summit of the Americas. That's anything else. (...) A country that is missing is no longer the Summit of the Americas," Cabello stated in the weekly press conference of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), broadcast by the state channel VTV.
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The also general secretary of the PSUV assured that Abinader, a critic of the Nicolás Maduro government, received the "order" to "leave out" Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, countries that were also not invited to the X Summit of the Americas, which will be held on December 4 and 5 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. "We've already seen that movie. That's not going to stop the Cuban revolution, the Nicaraguan revolution, or the Bolivarian revolution," said the person considered number two in Chavismo.Last September, the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which assumed the pro tempore Presidency in 2023 of the Summit of the Americas, informed the government's decision not to invite Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
In a statement, it specified that "the non-invitation to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela - countries that, for various reasons, have decided not to be part of the OAS (Organization of American States) and that did not participate in the last edition of the Summit of the Americas - constitutes the decision that, given the hemispheric circumstances, favors the largest convocation and ensures the development of the forum". Regarding Venezuela, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that the "Dominican government has not recognized the legitimacy of the last two presidential elections held in that country, while the Venezuelan authorities have suspended diplomatic relations."
