Latin American and Caribbean nations should aspire to a regional block similar to the European Union, Mexico's president said on Saturday, in a bid to wrest diplomatic influence away from the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS).
The host of the summit, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, told nearly 20 presidents and prime ministers attending the meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States at the gathering's opening ceremony that the block could better boost the region's inequality-stricken economies as well as confront health and other crisis.
"We should build in the American continent something similar to what was the economic community that was the beginning of the current European Union," he added, emphasizing the need to respect the sovereignty of the region's mostly Spanish-speaking nations. "We are worried and look gravely at what's happening in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela," he said, ticking off what he described as repressive actions by those governments, including the jailing of political opponents.
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