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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Honduran President Xiomara Castro, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro meet at the Encuentro Palenque. Photo: X/@NicolasMaduro.
President Nicolás Maduro will be received with honors corresponding to his high rank by the Secretary of Welfare, Ariadna Montiel Reyes, the Mexican ambassador to Venezuela, Leopoldo de Gyves de la Cruz, and the Venezuelan ambassador to Mexico, Francisco Arias Cárdenas.
Presidents from 11 Latin American countries will participate in the meeting to be held this Sunday in the state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala.
The meeting is being held while Mexico and Central America are facing an “unprecedented” migratory flow, as warned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) last month. According to the Organization, the US-Mexico border was the most dangerous land migration route in the world last year, reported VTV (Venezolana de Televisión).
Heads of state and government officials at summit on migration
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and the prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, arrived this Saturday in Palenque to participate in the meeting on migration convened by the government of Mexico.
The two presidents will join the activities of the meeting to be held tomorrow at the Visitors’ Center of the Palenque archaeological site, which will also include the presidents of Honduras, Xiomara Castro; of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; and of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro; as well as foreign ministers and vice ministers of six other nations.
The activities will be led by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and will discuss the phenomenon of migration, which has had diverse impacts on the region, in order to find solutions to the humanitarian crisis that has become a risk for the millions of people in irregular migration.
At the meeting, according to Spanish international news agency EFE, the Mexican president is seeking a common proposal to be presented to US President Joe Biden in November.
On its social media accounts, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the arrival of Petro, Henry, and other high-level officials from participating nations: “This Saturday, the president of Colombia … arrived in our country to participate in the ‘Encuentro Palenque, por una vecindad fraterna y con bienestar,’ which will be headed by President López Obrador tomorrow.”
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Regarding the Haitian premier, the Foreign Ministry posted on the social network X: “This Saturday, Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval of the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), on behalf of President López Obrador, received Ariel Henry, prime minister of Haiti, and the delegation that accompanies him, for the ‘Encuentro Palenque, por una vecindad fraterna y con bienestar,’ which will take place tomorrow.”
Unofficially, diplomatic sources corroborated the arrival of the Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and the prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, although it was not confirmed who was present at the dinner. Honduran President Xiomara Castro is expected to arrive early tomorrow morning.
(Últimas Noticias) by Larry Márquez
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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