By: Sylvia Davila MM
Bogotá/Copyright
The Americas Summit is about to
take place again. And, again, it is surprising how time after time, year after
year, the entire event gets focused in Cuba’s assistance, leaving the rest of
the Americas out of range of attention. Ironically, the point that is pretended
to be left out gets always central stage. All other issues of the Americas, the
other countries, sleep silently under the shadow of a conflicting island, time
after time. The continents where a rich variety of resources, virtues and
strengths grow, miss the opportunity to face the world at the Summit, time
after time.
Strong daring Brazil, independent
and focused; long stern Chile poetry and warmth; Bolivian eagles wings wide
open at the top; Argentine confidence, style and song; twin calm brothers
Uruguay and Paraguay; Peruvian serenity a mountain call; Colombia bathe by
oceans green and warm; Ecuador cross-roads of history dignified and calm;
Venezuela’s black and white rivers under a fierce sun; Mexico from shore to
shore booming and strong. Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama,
Salvador, Belize, bridge for continents, port for seas; and all the Caribbean
islands obliged path from south or north. A huge green continent unified by a
common language, common needs, one soul.
Should Brazilian leadership turn
its head and hold hands with Hispanic Americas, along with a progressive vision
at the north of America where change is thriving to find wider fairer ways, the
Americas would “Sum it” the best of both hemispheres, a strong powerful pole to
pole axe would be born to face these challenging times for the world and for
the planet. And Cuba’s issue would
become what it is: a lasting dictatorship of an island that lives in the midst
of a vast, powerful, unified, future-focused, beautiful, green continent./ February 14/2012-SDMM
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