Latin America’s growing role on the global political chessboard was emphasised during talks with the EU in Brussels last week.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) met for the first time in eight years at a summit marked by dissent over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
European representatives, acting as one, proposed that the final declaration should include a formal rejection of Russia’s aggression. But they were faced with 33 countries from a very heterogeneous region that maintain diverse alliances with the powers involved in the war. And the agreement that was eventually reached is evidence of the bloc’s desire to form closer ties with Latin America. The final text does not explicitly condemn Russia and mentions the war only in paragraph 15 – with no mention of Russia.
