“We are at this summit to raise our voices and to create a special agenda for the Amazon because they are currently creating (oil) platforms and highways within our territories,” he said.
“It is time for world leaders to act to save the Amazon,” said Nemo Andy Guiquita, who has also traveled to Los Angeles to ask the State of California to stop buying “the crude oil that comes directly” from their lands.
“The situation in terms of human rights is very serious because there are too many violations in important countries, such as Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua,” Venezuelan Óscar López, director of projects for the organization Pan American and Caribbean Union for Human Rights, told Efe. Humans’ (Pacuhr, for its acronym in English).
He also stressed that the exclusion of these three countries from the summit shows “the rejection of societies that believe in democracy, freedoms and the quality and well-being of their citizens.”
On Tuesday, during the second day of the summit, the different mayors from the United States and Latin America shared experiences and “good practices” to respond to the migration issue and the climate crisis.
Under the title “Shared challenges, shared solutions”, the meeting brought together the mayor of the host city, Eric Garcetti; his counterpart in Denver, Michael Hancock; the councilor of Bogotá, Claudia López; and the mayor of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Joel Martínez.