Biden-hosted Americas summit facing boycott over invitation list
Source: Washington Post
Biden-hosted Americas summit facing boycott over invitation list
By Karen DeYoung
Yesterday at 5:11 p.m. EDT
In a potential embarrassment for his administration, a growing number of hemispheric leaders have said they will not attend an Americas summit, to be hosted by President Biden next month in Los Angeles, if the meeting excludes Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
“If everyone is not invited, I will not go,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters Tuesday in Mexico City. Bolivian President Luis Arce tweeted that “if the exclusion of brother nations persists, I will not participate.”
A number of Caribbean leaders have taken the same stand, and more are expected from South and Central America. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s participation, according to a statement emailed from his office Wednesday, is “currently under evaluation, and is yet to be confirmed. “
The Summit of the Americas, held every three years in a different country, is the premier event for hemispheric bonding. The June 6-10 Los Angeles meeting will be the first hosted by the United States since President Bill Clinton held the inaugural session in Miami in 1994.
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