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Trump again lashed out on Saturday on social media at S\u00e1nchez, who has faced Trump\u2019s scorn for not allowing the U.S. to use jointly operated military bases in Spain for operations related to the Iran war and for refusing to raise military spending from 2% to 5% of GDP.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHas anybody looked at how badly the country of Spain is doing. Their financial numbers, despite contributing almost nothing to NATO and their military defense, are absolutely horrendous. Sad to watch!!!\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social.<\/p>\n
Spain, like the U.S. and other developed countries, is in debt, but it has one of the world\u2019s leading economies under S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n
Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and other leaders and officials were in attendance at the IV Meeting in Defense of Democracy. Later in the day, S\u00e1nchez, Lula and Ramaphosa stayed put at the convention center to attend the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization, where some 3,000 left-leaning elected officials, policy analysts and activists exchanged ideas.<\/p>\n
Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent a short video message to the rally, saying \u201cwe can shape a better future no matter what the odds may be against that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Reforming the U.N.<\/p>\n
Ramaphosa said South Africa will present a draft resolution to establish an International Panel on Inequality, aiming to tackle the growing wealth gap both within and between nations, to the U.N. General Assembly in September.<\/p>\n
He also urged a rethink of the Security Council of the U.N., pointing to the wars started by permanent Security Council members \u2014 Russia against Ukraine, and the U.S. against Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe United Nations has now become a toothless organization because those who are members of the Security Council are the ones who continue to violate all the laws and the rights,\u201d Ramaphosa said at the gathering of socialists and progressives.<\/p>\n
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Among concrete proposals, Sheinbaum plugged her idea that governments commit to spending the equivalent of 10% of their military budgets on reforestation projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach year, instead of planting the seeds of war, we will plant the seeds of life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Sheinbaum also said she wants to propose a declaration, without specifying if she referred to the U.N., against a military intervention in Cuba. Trump has said that he believes he will \u201c have the honor of taking Cuba\u201d soon, though it wasn’t clear exactly what he meant.<\/p>\n
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S\u00e1nchez argued for the importance of regulating social media to stop the spread of hate speech and disinformation. His government also said that it is working with Brazil on a tax for the ultrarich.<\/p>\n
Defending core values<\/p>\n
The gatherings come a day after S\u00e1nchez and Lula held a summit at a former royal palace in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
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Lula and S\u00e1nchez are among the few progressive leaders who have withstood a shift to the right and remain popular in their countries while defending multilateral agreements, human rights, environmental protections and gender equality \u2014 values often challenged by Trump; Lula\u2019s neighbor in Argentina, libertarian President Javier Milei; and Europe\u2019s far right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, center, poses with attendees, at the Meeting in Defence of Democracy summit in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,1970,4057,194,363,4619,31,4273,4618,1561,2317,205,2314,2316,4532,17],"class_list":["post-7014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-donald-trump","tag-gustavo-petro","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iran","tag-javier-milei","tag-lars-klingbeil","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-32502-ap-online-europe-news","tag-sanchez-lula-trump-sheinbaum-progressive-summit","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}