Far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) later this week to discuss President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal migrants in the United States.
CELAC is a 33-country bloc founded in Caracas in 2011, largely promoted by Venezuela’s late socialist dictator Hugo Chávez as a U.S-free alternative regional structure to the Organization of American States (OAS), of which the United States is a member.
Castro, who presently chairs the bloc’s yearly rotating pro-tempore presidency, called for the urgent meeting, scheduled for Thursday, January 30, 2025. The encounter will occur in the aftermath of Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro’s brief diplomatic crisis with the United States, a short-lived “trade
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