América Writing, May 4 (EFE).- America’s top leaders, with the notable exclusion of Brazil’s Lula da Silva and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will be absent from the Saturday May 6 coronation ceremony of King Carlos III of England, and will be represented by their chancellors, ambassadors and even spouses, as evidenced by the compilation made by EFE.

The White House announced on April 4 that United States President Joe Biden would not attend the event, and that First Lady Jill Biden would attend the event instead. The same day, the North American president telephoned the monarch to congratulate him on his coronation.

Opposite Cuba and Bolivia, which will not send any official representation, and Venezuela and Nicaragua, which so far have not provided any information, is Brazil, which will be represented by Lula da Silva himself.

In addition to attending the ceremony, the Brazilian leader will use the trip to meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and take stock of bilateral relations, including cooperation against the climate emergency, as the two countries have worked together for a decade on pollution monitoring plans. in the Amazon.

The most notable absence will be that of Argentina, a country which in 1982 faced the United Kingdom in the Falklands War, with a balance sheet of 649 Argentinian soldiers and 255 English dead. Argentina, which continues to claim sovereignty over these islands, will be represented by Javier Figueroa, its ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Peru, Chile and Mexico will also only be represented by their respective ambassadors in London, Juan Carlos Gamarra, Susana Herrera and Josefa González-Blanco Ortiz-Mena, respectively.

Meanwhile, on behalf of Colombia, Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva and First Lady Verónica Alcocer will attend the funeral of Queen Isabella II. Both are currently in Madrid with President Gustavo Petro, who is on a state visit to Spain, and from there they will depart for London.

For Ecuador, it is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Gustavo Manrique. For the moment, the president, Guillermo Lasso, should not be present. This Thursday, the British monarch received in audience the Achuar leader Uyunkar Domingo Peas, promoter of the Cuencas Sagradas alliance, which aims to protect more than 35 million hectares of the Amazon basin located between Ecuador and Peru.

Dominican President Luis Abinader and First Lady Raquel Arbaje arrived in the British capital on Thursday to attend the event. Also traveling with his wife, Silvana López Moreira, is the outgoing President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, who next August will hand over the post to Santiago Peña, winner of the presidential elections held this Sunday.

For Panama, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Janaina Tewaney, will attend the ceremony, as will the case of Costa Rica and Uruguay, which will send their Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Arnoldo André and Francisco Bustillo, respectively.

Meanwhile, representing the Honduran President, Xiomara Castro, will be the Vice President, Renato Florentino Pineda, of the same rank as the El Salvador delegation, which will be represented by its number two, Felix Ulloa.

On the other hand, senior officials from seven former British colonies in the Caribbean will attend the coronation ceremony of King Charles III of the United Kingdom.

The Heads of State of the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Saint Kitts-Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines will lead their respective delegations, while Jamaica will have its Governor General.