Overview
- Delegations from 58 of 60 countries endorsed the 52-point text, while Venezuela and Nicaragua formally dissociated from it.
- Only nine heads of state or government attended, and the Santa Marta meeting was shortened to a single day.
- Leaders referenced U.S. actions that sank vessels in the southern Caribbean and Colombia’s Pacific as they restated opposition to the threat or use of force under the U.N. Charter.
- Argentina sent subsecretary Juan Manuel Navarro instead of Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno and declined to approve points 10, 15, 18, 42 and 44 of the document.
- The summit announced an Alliance for Citizen Security, a care-economy best-practices pact, and an expanded Global Gateway push on satellite connectivity, power interconnections and an EU–LAC supercomputing network, alongside references to Gaza and Ukraine.