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The VIII Summit of the Americas will open this afternoon in this capital city, despite the fact that the Peruvian organizers disinvited Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a decision criticized by some countries in the region.

Members of the Cuban and Venezuelan civil societies protested the anti-democratic nature of a meeting Thursday with high-level representatives of the governments attending the event.

The members of the legitimate Cuban civil society that represents more than two thousand organizations of the Island and that attend in this capital to the forums of the VIII Summit of the Americas, denounced today serious provocations in Lima, where new offensive advertising billboards were placed against Cuba.

A delegation of Cuban youth will participate today in the sessions of the 5th Youth Forum of the 8th Summit of the Americas in this capital city, despite having been excluded from the dialogue between social actors and high-level government representatives, scheduled for Thursday 12 April.

Cuban representatives participated today, in this capital city, in the first interfaith summit of the Americas, organized within the framework of the VIII Hemispheric Summit by organizations that make up coalition nine of civil society.

Coalition 15, For an Inclusive and Respectful World, of the Civil Society Forum of the VIII Summit of the Americas, in which 68 Cuban representatives of the more than two thousand non-governmental organizations of the Island will participate, will meet this Wednesday afternoon.

The People's Summit that will open its doors this Tuesday in this capital, as an alternative to the hemispheric meeting of leaders that will take place next Friday and Saturday was defined as a space for meeting, articulation and confluence of the social movements of Our America.

To what Summit are you coming, what Summit is that, boss? They may seem like questions, but in reality they are the answers of the ordinary Peruvian who does not see his day of subsistence disturbed, three days before the opening of the VIII Summit of the Americas in this capital city.

A total of 21 heads of state have so far confirmed their attendance at the 8th Summit of the Americas, to be held in Lima, Peru, which will also be attended by representatives from 31 states in the region.

The alternative People's Summit that will take place in this capital April 10-14 will be a great act of continental solidarity, said Gerónimo López Sevillano, secretary general of the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP).

Cuba expressed its solidarity with Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva following the rejection by Brazil's Federal Supreme Court of a Habeas Corpus presented by Lula's defense attorney and considered his possible detention a very serious action.

The Summit of the Americas to take place next week in Lima Peru, would present a scenario more hostile than that held in Panama three years ago, to which Cuba was invited for the first time after having been excluded for over two decades.

Cuban ambassador at the European Union, Norma Goicochea, subscribed on behalf of the Cuban Government the Founding Accord of the European Union-Latin America and Caribbean International Foundation.