The Leaders of Mexico and Brazil Are Shamefully Soft on Putin. It Will Haunt Them
The Leaders of Mexico and Brazil Are Shamefully Soft on Putin. It Will Haunt Them
Twelve Latin American presidents had not criticized the Russian invasion by February 28, four days after the invasion, according to AS/COA, writes Andrés Oppenheimer for the Miami Herald.
It’s no coincidence that President Biden did not mention one single Latin American country in his State of the Union address when he listed the nations that have taken active steps to oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The response from the region’s biggest countries to Russia’s attack has been pitiful.
In his annual address to Congress on Tuesday night, Biden said that “France, Germany, Italy, as well as countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and many others — even Switzerland — are inflicting pain on Russia and supporting the people of Ukraine.”…
A total of 12 Latin American presidents had failed to explicitly criticize the Russian invasion by Feb. 28, four days after the invasion, according to a chart published by the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas.
They included the dictators of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, who openly supported Putin’s invasion, and the democratically-elected presidents of El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, and Bolivia…
