Hi friends of the IECR blog,

I would like to comment the most outstanding of the Rio Summit.The state members  achieved an agreement in order to create a new regional organization which can replace the present OAS. This new body will not count on the presence of the northern states, USA and Canada, which have been excluded.The new body will be constituted officially in the next group summit to be celebrated in Caracas.

The participants, 32 represented nations,  approved the creation of this new regional block so that the Latin American countries build a single voice in the many-sided forums marking clear differences with respect to the United States. This country had professed a predominant roll within the frame of the OAS until now. 

This new group is supposed to work in accordance with the OAS (Organization of American States).The new body will gather the rio group and the Carribbean Community (CARICOM) and work in accordance with the OAS. The agreement which will create it definitely is supposed to be signed during the coming summit of the rio group to be celebrated in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2011, and from then on the new body will start working.

During the closure of the summit the Costa Rican President Arias criticized openly the nations whose presidents have become authoritarian presidents who restrict by their positions the liberty of their fellow citizens.

There has also been friction during the summit between the Presidents of Colombia and Venezuela who reproached each other politics.