The United States will host the Summit for Democracy
Havana, March 29 (RHC) The United States will today be one of the hosts of the so-called Summit for Democracy in its second edition, an event criticized because its main promoter tries to teach lessons while failing at home.
The meeting, which on Wednesday and Thursday will bring together in virtual and face-to-face format world leaders liked by Washington, will debate among its main topics the challenges to responsible and transparent governance, conflicts, climate change and technological transformation.
For some political observers, those objectives could be relegated to the possibility that the meeting serves as a platform for the United States to continue exacerbating sentiment against Russia and China.
The first edition of this Summit, held in December 2021, was widely criticized and was even considered a failure. Former Texas Republican lawmaker Ron Paul then warned that "none of the fawning foreign leaders graced with an invitation to the banquet dared point out that Washington is dedicated to undermining democracy abroad, not promoting it."
For its part, The Hill newspaper reported that the White House tried to revitalize the image of a United States possessing a "healthy democracy" when reality reflected the opposite.
On January 6 of that same year, the current president in the White House, Donald Trump, called into question the pillars of American democracy with false claims of electoral fraud in the November 2020 elections. Such allegations caused the enraged supporters of the Republican to storm the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021, with the aim of stopping the certification of the victory of Democrat Joe Biden. More than two years later, Trump still argues that the election was stolen from him and maintains that in 2024 he will win again as he did before.
The attack on Congress left five dead and more than 140 police officers injured, and perhaps the United States would have invaded a country for much less, some critics said.
In this second Summit for Democracy on March 29 and 30, the Biden government will share the role of host with Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea and the Republic of Zambia. (Source: Prensa Latina)
