By Sarah Anderson
In a panic over the United States arresting Nicolás Maduro this weekend, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) on Sunday, with the support of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum.
For those who don’t know, CELAC is an alternative to the Organization of American States (OAS) that includes 33 countries from the Caribbean and Latin America. Unlike OAS, it excludes the United States and Canada, citing a desire for regional autonomy.
Petro, Lula, and Sheinbaum had the idea that they were going to issue a CELAC communiqué that condemned the Donald Trump administration’s actions and demand that the U.S. release Maduro immediately. The document carries on about peace and so forth, including how they want to maintain the peace of the region, which is rich coming from the narco-president of Mexico and the former M-19 guerilla of Colombia, but I digress…
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