Uruguayan residents in Cuba criticized Lacalle Pou for his “interference” on the island | The repercussions of the Uruguayan president’s harsh speech at the Celac summit

Uruguayan community residing in Cuba rejected “expressions of interference” Regarding the island of the President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, at the sixth summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) held in Mexico. Saturday Lacalle Pou had criticized the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela for “not respecting human rights”. His remarks prompted a harsh response from the President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz Canel, who awarded him “ignorance of reality” and recommended that he “listen to his people” after the opposition’s successful campaign to call a referendum to eliminate articles from the Urgent Considerations Act (UCA), regressive in economic and social terms.

“We have rights that many would like to have”

“The crude and false accusations that he exposed there make us ashamed”, underlined the note of the Uruguayan residents in Cuba, in relation to the remarks of Lacalle Pou in Mexico. They criticized the president’s lack of respect “towards a people and their government who welcomed us like children” and added: “EnjoyWe have rights that many people around the world would like to have“.

The statement posted on the Facebook account of the former Uruguayan ambassador to Cuba, Eduardo Lorier, recognizes that Lacalle Pou “did not speak on behalf of the Uruguayan people, friend and brother of the Cuban people” and concludes with a message to Cuba of “our permanent respect and gratitude”.

Lacalle Pou’s remarks also had an echo in the Uruguayan opposition. Front Broad deputy Daniel Caggiani said “the president does very badly to confuse his personal or partisan position with the position of our country in a regional forum like the Celac 2021 summit”. The legislator too Bettiana diaz he tweeted that “it must be a lie that President Lacalle Pou shows his face to teach respect for human rights at the Celac summit, while it is happening in Uruguayan prisons”. Díaz mentioned the case of a detainee who was held by other detainees for 40 days in a cell, naked, tortured and malnourished.

The crosses during the summit

Frictions in Celac’s meeting began when Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez claimed he did not recognize Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela. “I say to the President of Paraguay: set the date, place and time for a debate on democracy in Paraguay, Venezuela and Latin America! Put yourself, President Lacalle, the date and the place! “, He replied Mature in front of the plenary session.

In agreement with his Paraguayan counterpart, Lacalle Pou declared that participating in the summit did not mean being “complacent” with countries where “there is no full democracy, the repressive apparatus serves to silence protests, when opponents are imprisoned. In his speech at the sixth regional summit, the right-wing leader said: “We can seriously see what is happening in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela”.

The President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz Canel, he assured that the word of Lacalle Pou “denotes his ignorance of reality”. Besides He advised his Uruguayan counterpart to “listen to his people, who have collected more than 700,000 signatures against the LUC” that Lacalle Pou “imposed and modified the conditions to adjust fuel prices, evictions, reduce the role of public enterprises and modify the criminal process”.

For Díaz-Canel, it is “a neoliberal package or package”. “With neoliberalism what has multiplied is instability, speculation, external debt, more frequent financial crises, poverty, inequalities … and a chasm between the rich north and the dispossessed south“, added the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.

“Fortunately, in my country, the opposition has democratic resources to complain. This is the big difference with the Cuban regime,” replied Lacalle Pou, exercising his right of reply, reading a fragment of the song “Patria y vida “, a hymn to the historic July protests in Cuba. “Looks like President Lacalle has very bad taste in music. This song is a lie and a construction among some artists against the Cuban Revolution, ”was Díaz-Canel’s pithy response.