Havana criticizes Washington's Democracy Summit
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Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal says her country's authorities consider the US holding a summit for democracy hypocritical.
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Vidal: Washington's summit is "insolence and hypocrisy"
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal said Cuba's authorities consider the US' decision to hold a summit on democracy "hypocritical and insolent".
The Cuban diplomat expressed her discontent on Monday in a post that translates to "Another great farce from the US, a notoriously undemocratic country, which declares itself the leader of the Summit for Democracy."
Vidal detailed that money in the US undermines the political system and that agendas of minority groups overpower national interests, the will of the electorate is ignored, and the right to bear arms supersedes the right to life.
The diplomat added that the US invades other countries and topples legitimate governments in the name of freedom.
It is noteworthy that US President Joe Biden had invited the leaders of about 110 countries to participate in a virtual Summit for Democracy to be held on December 9 and 10 ahead of an in-person meeting at its second edition next year.
Russia and China were among those excluded from the invitation.
China and Russia's ambassadors to the US, Qin Gang and Anatoly Antonov, firmly rejected this move in a joint article published by the National Interest.
