Latin America Leaders Condemn Us-Mexico Border Wall at CELAC Summit Lucia Newman - Al Jazeera
go to original January 26, 2017

Outrageous. Disgusting. Nauseating. These are just a few of the long list of qualifiers against the Trump administration's announcement to go ahead with building the infamous wall separating the United States from the rest of Latin America.

"We have to protect ourselves from the aggressive policy of persecuting migrants. The attacks against human rights is one of the central topics that brought us to this summit," said Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa as he arrived in Punta Cana.

"Our commitment is to defend the right to migrate, the most important form of movement. It is not the flow of capital or the flow of merchandise, but rather the mobility of human beings, which is a human right," Correa added.

Ten heads of state and 33 foreign ministers gathered at the annual CELAC - the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States - summit in the Dominican Republic were already preparing to debate ways to confront a new regional reality.

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