Josep Borrell
's message
to the foreign ministers of the Caribbean and Central America was conclusive before the "decisive moment in the world", generated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine: "We must be more united than ever defending democracy."
A complex objective when Latin America is going through a historical moment with similarities to the last century, with
three dictatorships that have deepened their revolutionary drift and with growing populism,
such as that of El Salvador, arising from boredom with current corruption and inequality.
The conclave held in Panama City brought together the High Representative of the European Union (EU) with 17 foreign ministers from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and the Central American Integration System (SICA), before whom Borrell defended multilateralism and "international order based on in rules".
He also showed his support for regional integration and emphasized human rights as a necessary virtue "for economic progress and the challenges of the triple green, digital and social transition."
Borrell intoned his mea culpa and argued that
the EU should put Latin America more on its radar.
"We Europeans now have a logical and understandable concern about what happens on our borders, but we should also take care of those parts of the world that are not a threat, that are an opportunity, because we share more and better the political idea of how it should work the world," explained the former Spanish Foreign Minister, knowing that it was the existing concern in Brussels about Russian support in the region that brought him to Panama.
"A difficult geopolitical context", as the European chancellor publicly acknowledged.
The pro-Russian allies made them see it that way, with the conspicuous absence of the envoy from
Daniel Ortega
's government and with a small protest of about twenty people, called by movements related to the three Latin American dictatorships.
As if they were clueless, they even shouted "No to war, yes to peace!".
Borrell, however, highlighted the general position of Central Americans and Caribbeans, despite the fact that they have great exceptions, not only the Nicaraguan.
Cuba
, which is not part of Caricom but does maintain close ties, like
Venezuela
, with the Caribbean islands, is also a staunch ally of the Kremlin.
The High Representative took advantage of a break in the mini-summit to announce an "essential new package" of sanctions against Russia, the sixth, which targets oil imports, other Russian banks and "disinformation actors", who have echoed so much achieved in Latin America.
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