Evo Morales, García Linera and Martín Torrijos join the Puebla Group
Contramaestre, Nov. 14.- The Puebla Group, founded by 32 leaders from 12 countries, today adds new members, including now Bolivian President Evo Morales, Vice President Álvaro García Linera, both exiled in Mexico and former Panamanian President Martín Torrijos.
A few days before the end of the second edition of the meeting, this mechanism formed by several political personalities, united by progressives and with different visions in search of a more egalitarian continent, continues to gain ground and establish itself as a bloc that advocates intercontinental unity.
According to a note from the Group posted on its website, in addition to Morales, who last Sunday, at the close of the event in Buenos Aires, was the victim of a coup d’état immediately repudiated by the Group.
Both Evo and Linera formally entered this space after arriving in Mexico, where they received political asylum. The former presidential candidate for Peru, Verónika Mendoza, has also joined the group.
Thus, with the arrival of Torrijos, the group now has nine former presidents among its ranks. The most recent were the former heads of state of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, and his Uruguayan counterpart, José Mujica, said the note.
In addition, Fernando Lugo, former president of Paraguay, and Ernesto Samper, Leonel Fernández, Rafael Correa and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former presidents of Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Spain, respectively, appear in this mechanism.
With these new members, there are 36 progressive leaders from Latin America and Europe, who will coincide in 2020 in a third international meeting with headquarters in Colombia.
Founded last June in the Mexican city of Puebla, after which it takes its name, the Group meets every six months and has former Chilean presidential candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami and Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernández among its founding fathers.
Also taking part are Uruguayan presidential candidate Daniel Martínez, several former ministers, former deputies, jurists, including former Secretary of the Organization of American States Jose? Miguel Insulza and Colombian ex-candidate Clara López.
According to its creators, the Latin American Progressive Group was born as a space for reflection and political exchange in Latin America, respecting the party preferences of each participant.
Its objective is to analyze common challenges and outline joint initiatives for the integral development of our peoples.
(With information from Prensa Latina in Spanish)
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
