CELAC: U.S. and Canada, Personae non gratae

CARACAS, Venezuela (defend.ht) - 33 countries in the western hemisphere came to a summit on Friday to form a new regional bloc in the western hemisphere that excludes the United States and Canada.
The order of the summit was to inaugurate the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a new regional organization welcomed by a large delegation of Haitian officials.
President Michel Martelly attended the inaugural summit in Caracas and in his speech spoke of education and food security hopes in Haiti and reiterated calls for direct foreign investment.
Most member states of CELAC are part of the Ibero-American and/or UNASUR organization. These two regional bodies are comprised of Latin and Central American countries but CELAC is nearly hemispheric giving Haiti and other Caribbean countries a multilateral a multilateral relationship with these states, somewhat like the Organization of American States.

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