Honduras Ruled out in
Latin American Summit
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran President Porfirio
Lobo, elected under the rupture of
institutional order, was not invited to the
Summit of Unity of Latin America and the
Caribbean to be held in Mexico, local media
reported on Wednesday.
"Mexico is preparing a summit with Latin
America without Honduras, says a headline in
The Tribune, which recalls the country was
expelled from the Organization of American
States (OAS) after the coup of June 28.
The newspaper published statements by
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations
Patricia Espinosa, who affirmed Honduran
government has not been invited to
participate because it is essential to make
a decision within the OAS, before.
In the event scheduled from February 21 to
23 at the Riviera Maya, it will converge the
Rio Group Summit and the Latin American and
Caribbean Integration and Development
(CALC).
Although the focus is in the regional
integration issue, it is possible the
situation in Honduras and the earthquake in
Haiti occupy much of the discussion.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega released
last week the possibility of a Central
American countries meeting on the sidelines
of the meeting in Mexico to analyze the
situation in the neighboring country.
Ortega recalled the existence of several
resolutions of the Central American
Integration System, the Rio Group, the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America and the OAS repudiating the rupture
of the institutional order.
During a special meeting held in 2009 in
Managua, the Rio Group vigorously condemned
the coup in Honduras and expressed support
to the then constitutional president Manuel
Zelaya.
In his final statement, the coordination
mechanism described as unacceptable the use
of force to overthrow a legally constituted
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