Excluding socialism from America

The historic goal of OAS and the Summits of the Americas

      The Summit of the Americas, scheduled to be held in Los Angeles from June 6 to June 10, intends to exclude Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.  The exclusion has provoked protests from the governments of Latin America and Caribbean and from organizations of civil society in the hemisphere, including in the United States.

      In its organization of the 2022 Summit of the Americas, the Organization of American States (OAS) fulfills its historic mission.  It was established more than seventy years ago for the specific purpose of enlisting the support of Latin American governments in the domination exercised over them by the United States.

     In the dispute on the Los Angeles Summit, there is being expressed a fundamental conflict between imperialism and socialism.  Imperialism seeks access to the raw materials, cheap labor, and markets of the world; whereas one of the fundamental principles of socialism is the right of nations to control their economies and their natural resources.  …