Overview
- At a CAF-Development Bank gathering in Panama City, presidents and envoys from across the region urged collective action to counter rising polarization.
- Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said CELAC has failed to issue even one declaration against illegal military interventions and warned of eroding integration.
- Lula alluded to the United States without naming it as contributing to divisions that have stalled the only body that includes all Latin American and Caribbean governments.
- Colombia’s Gustavo Petro condemned “bombing” over Caracas and said former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro should be tried in Venezuela or before a regional “Three Americas Tribunal.”
- Leaders from Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Chile’s president-elect José Antonio Kast attended, and Petro is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump in Washington next week.