The Communist Party of Cuba thanked its counterpart in China on Tuesday for pressuring the administration of President Joe Biden to invite Cuba to next week’s Summit of the Americas, an event technically reserved for democracies.
China is one of the world’s most repressive states, on the other side of the planet from North and South America. It has nonetheless used its Foreign Ministry and propaganda arms to condemn the Biden administration for not officially inviting Cuba to the Summit. The Summit is meant to unite members of the Organization of American States (OAS), whose charter emphasizes that states must be free democracies.
Biden has so far formally disinvited Venezuela and Nicaragua, the other two leftist dictatorships in the hemisphere, but at press time has not yet issued an invite or rejection to Cuba. Cuban puppet leader Miguel Díaz-Canel has stated that he…
