The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorconfirmed this Tuesday that the summit of the Pacific alliance scheduled for this Friday in the country due to the refusal of the Peruvian Congress to allow the president’s attendance Pedro Castillo.
The meeting of the Pacific Alliance was suspended because the president of Peru was not allowed to attend and he is responsible for the presidency (of the organization), he was going to receive it here, and we are exploring the possibility of holding an act in Peru,” López declared. Obrador in his daily press conference.
Despite the suspension of the summitthe Mexican president confirmed the visit of the other member presidents, the Chilean Gabriel Boric, and the Colombian Gustavo Petro, as well as the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, who seeks to join the trade bloc.
Also tomorrow afternoon, President Boric will be with us and I can tell you that President Lasso, President Petro, is coming in a bilateral meeting, they are the ones who will be with us,” López Obrador explained.
In defense of the Peruvian president
The president of Mexico had already advanced on Monday the possibility of suspending the meeting of the Pacific Alliance, a commercial bloc made up of his country, Chili, Colombia Y Perudue to the absence of Castillo, who faces a constitutional complaint for criminal organization, influence peddling and collusion.
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López Obrador, who has previously supported Castillo and has denounced that there is “racism” behind the attempts of the Peruvian Congress to remove him, commented that he will consult with the other partners of the alliance about going to Peru.
We are working on it, it is probable, that we can go to hold the meeting there in December, in the first week of December, but now that Gustavo Petro is coming and President Boric is coming, who are members of the Pacific Alliance, we are going to deal with this issue,” he said.
Cancelled, the meeting of the ‘eighth economic power’
The Pacific Alliance, formally constituted 10 years ago and which seeks to strengthen trade integration, boasts of being “the eighth economic power and the eighth exporting power worldwide,” by representing 41% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America and attracting 38% of foreign direct investment.
The summit in Mexico had raised expectations for being the first time in which the four presidents that make up the bloc are from the left.
In addition, López Obrador had taken the opportunity to invite other leaders of the Latin American left, such as the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, and the elected president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The Ecuadorian and Costa Rican presidents, Rodrigo Chaves, who seek to enter the trade bloc, would also attend.
For the same reason, President-elect Lula will not be there, nor President Alberto Fernández of Argentina, but this is the house of both of us, we are very good friends, and later, surely, they will visit us, “concluded López Obrador.
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