This measure, officially presented by the Foreign Ministry as a step to “prioritize the success of the meeting,” immediately generated a wave of criticism.

Several groups, including the Frente Amplio (Broad Front-FA), the Communist Labor Party (PCT), the United Left Movement (MIU), the Dominican Popular Movement, and the Assembly of Peoples of the Caribbean-Dominican Chapter, expressed their opposition through statements and public pronouncements.

These organizations united in a common front, denouncing the measure as a “submission to the interests of the United States and the Organization of American States (OAS)” and an attack on the Dominican Republic’s tradition of sovereignty and historic solidarity with the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The leaders of these organizations agreed that the exclusion of the three countries violates fundamental principles of the Constitution, international law, and the values of hemispheric integration.

FA President Maria Teresa Cabrera remembered that the Dominican Republic has faced foreign interventions in the past, evoking the 1965 US invasion and the region’s solidarity in defense of national independence.

These organizations emphasized the defense of the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace and their opposition to the presence of US troops and military assets in the region.

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