Multilateralidad en América Latina y el Caribe y el genocidio en Gaza

The Latin American and Caribbean region has sought to play a leading role since the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, as many of its States have sought a balance in their relations with both. With a few exceptions, almost all States today have diplomatic relations with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which they recognize as a State (except Paraguay), and several have tried in the recent past to play a more active role in the Middle East.

With the dramatic situation at the end of 2023, Latin America once again claimed international law as the course of its actions. As a result, several States decided to take action within the framework of multilateralism to express solidarity with Palestine and demand a ceasefire in Gaza and the subsequent violence in the rest of the occupied territories. Although Latin America is weakened in its multilateral spaces, its express and permanent desire to defend international law, international humanitarian law and the United Nations system, or rather, what is left of these, remains.