HAVANA, Cuba. – The Cuban press highlights this Friday the complaint made in Lima by Juan Antonio Fernandez, government representative of the island at the eighth Summit of the Americas, who rejected the presence of mercenaries at that meeting.

Newspapers Granma and Juventud Rebelde, radio stations Radio Reloj and Radio Rebelde, the information system of TV and other digital and printed media echo the position taken by the diplomat in one of the forums framed in the hemispheric summit.

Fernandez said Cuba will not accept the presence of mercenaries or dialogue with terrorists, in allusion to the participation of revolutionaries of Cuban origin in the service of the United States in that meeting.

“Cuba must be respected, don´t mess with Cuba,” he sentenced in the forum, while he showed a picture of one of those counter-revolutionaries with Luis Posada Carriles.

They Consider the Summit as a Political Instrument of the USA

The Vice-Minister of coordination with Social Movements of Bolivia, Jose Maria Alessandri, considered that since its creation, the Summit of the Americas became an instrument of U.S. policy, local media reflect.

Alessandri said that such an assertion is appreciated this year, whose interventionist attitude is evident with the exclusion of Venezuela to the eighth edition of the Summit, for having a democratic government, elected by popular will.

The Bolivian Vice-Minister added that situation is the cause that for more than twelve or thirteen years ago, the social organizations of the continent develop in parallel the Peoples´ Summit.

In this occasion, scheduled for today and tomorrow in Lima, the Venezuelan affair and its President Nicolas Maduro is one of the most important to deal with, in addition to the Bolivian maritime theme, he noted.