Former Latin American Foreign Ministers warn of the “collapse of the international order”

Almost 40 former foreign ministers and former senior Latin American officials warn of the “collapse of the international order” and ask the governments of their region for greater involvement to recover “a renewed multilateralism in which everyone has a place and Latin America once again has a voice.”

“The normative consensuses and principles that have regulated relations between nations since the horrors of World War II, including the sacred principle of non-aggression, are being dismantled and replaced by power blocs built around the law of the strongest.” , express the former leaders in a manifesto released yesterday.

The manifesto criticizes “double standards” in Ukraine or Gaza and rejects Trump’s attitude on the Panama Canal

In the text, they criticize that Russia “set out to conquer a neighboring country in a colonial war” and ask that Trump’s US maintain its military aid to Ukraine. At the same time, they reject Trump’s statements that point to the recovery of US sovereignty over the Panama Canal.

The former ministers also denounce “the attack on human rights and international humanitarian law” and “the double standards” when condemning “Russia’s deliberate attacks against civilians” in Ukraine or “the destruction, famine and death, especially of innocent women and children, caused by the Government of Beniamin Netanyahu in Gaza, or in the terrorist attacks by Hamas on defenseless civilians, or also in the displacement and sexual violence unleashed by the opposing forces in Sudan.”

The document denounces “the attacks on free trade and the attempt to impose greater barriers to our exports and use tariffs as a tool of political pressure, violating the rules agreed upon in the WTO.” “The flow of goods is decisive for the growth of our economies and the fight against poverty and inequality on our continent,” adds the manifesto, which also questions “the attacks on the commitments acquired in the existential fight against climate change.” .

The manifesto is made public days before Trump’s inauguration and is signed by former foreign ministers of different political stripes, such as the Argentine Susana Malcorra (Macrista) or Santiago Caffiero (Peronist), the Chilean Christian Democrat Soledad Alvear, the Colombian conservative Marta Lucía Ramírez, who was also vice president of her country, like the Uruguayan progressive Rodolfo Nin Novoa. The text is also signed by the former High Commissioner for Peace of Colombia Sergio Jaramillo or by the former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Claudio Grossman.

Source: www.lavanguardia.com