<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>President Pedro Sánchez will tour Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay from July 20 to 23. This tour will include a meeting in Santiago, Chile, with the presidents of Chile, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay to promote multilateralism and democracy.</strong></h4> Chilean President Gabriel Boric will lead the "Democracy Always" meeting on July 21 at La Moneda Palace. This high-level meeting will include Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Pedro Sánchez, Gustavo Petro, and Yamandú Orsi, the Chilean Presidency announced in a press release on Tuesday. The objective of this meeting, according to the same source, is "to continue the process that began in 2024 during the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly" and to advance "a shared position in favor of multilateralism, democracy, and global cooperation based on social justice." The proposals resulting from this meeting, it specified, "will be presented and developed during the next High-Level Meeting, which will take place within the framework of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly," scheduled for September of this year in New York. The meeting, which will bring together the presidents of the countries that have promoted the creation of this new alliance, will have three main axes: strengthening democracy and multilateralism, reducing inequalities, combating disinformation, and regulating emerging technologies. The meeting in Santiago will follow up on the first meeting of the initiative "In Defense of Democracy, Fighting Extremism," organized in 2024 by the presidents of Brazil and Spain in the context of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and attended by Gabriel Boric and other heads of state and government. "The leaders who attended this meeting committed to strengthening democratic institutions and processes, as well as to maintaining ongoing coordination on the challenges associated with these matters in their countries and around the world," the Chilean Presidency stated. Separately, it continued, the Chilean president participated last February in a virtual meeting with Lula, Sánchez, Petro, and Orsi to define guidelines and joint actions for strengthening democracy, multilateralism, and global governance "in the face of the challenges unleashed by a context of high political fragmentation and polarization, deepening inequality, and the proliferation of disinformation." "It was precisely at this virtual meeting that the leaders agreed to meet in person in Chile's capital," he concluded. After his visit to Chile, according to sources from Moncloa, Pedro Sánchez will travel to Uruguay and Paraguay on July 22 and 23 to develop a program of institutional and business meetings.
