By Patricio Montesinos on October 6, 2025
The possible exclusion of Cuba, as well as Venezuela and Nicaragua, from the upcoming X Summit of the Americas demonstrates once again that these meetings, far from promoting dialogue, are intended to divide the Patria Grande (Great Homeland) for the benefit of US interests of domination.
Cuban authorities learned of this decision by the Dominican Republic, host of the summit in December, in response to pressure from Washington to prevent the presence of the largest island of the Antilles.
Cuba emphasized in a recent official statement from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the decision to exclude it from the hemispheric summit constitutes a capitulation to the brutal unilateral impositions of White House Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
It also asserted that the Trump administration is once again using the “gunboat policy” and the Monroe Doctrine against the region that the northern empire mistakenly insists is its backyard.
The text states that another meeting of the Americas built on segregation and coercion is doomed to failure.
And this is very true, because the non-participation of several countries in the meeting of heads of state and government in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, will only serve to divide Our America once again, in favor of Washington’s designs.
According to international analysts, the previous nine meetings of the Americas have been nothing more than “stormy summits,” which successive White House administrations have encouraged in order to foster disunity and attack governments they consider adversaries.
Of those meetings held since 2015, the Caribbean archipelago has been excluded from seven of them, except for those held in 2015 in Panama and in 2018 in Lima, Peru.
Now Trump, influenced by his warmongering “advisor” Rubio, is once again attempting to prevent Cuba, along with Venezuela and Nicaragua, from attending the summit in Punta Cana, confirming his clearly aggressive stance toward Havana, Caracas, and Managua.
But the worst thing, according to the same analysts, is that countries of the Patria Grande are bowing to pressure from the US.
As long as Latin America and the Caribbean lack a single voice in the face of Washington, true regional independence, based on respect for the self-determination and sovereign equality of all nations, will never be achieved.
Patricio Montesinos is a Spanish journalist residing in La Paz, Bolivia. He is a correspondent for Cubadebate.
Source: Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH)