Joe Biden’s “Summit of the Americas” disrupted from its launch

Joe Biden’s “Summit of the Americas”, supposed to inaugurate a new era in the United States’ relations with Latin America, which opens on Monday June 6, is already experiencing many bumps, the Mexican president refusing to participate. after excluding Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

After weeks of suspense, the President of Mexico Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador finally followed through on his threat and announced that he would not participate in the diplomatic event which begins Monday in Los Angeles.

“I’m not going to the top because we don’t invite all the countries of America. I believe in the need to change the policy that has been imposed for centuries: exclusion”he declared to the press.

Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are indeed not invited to this Summit, a White House official confirmed on Monday, pointing out “reserves” of the United States against “to the lack of democratic space and respect for human rights” in these three countries.

Leaders from all over the region are however expected for a week of exchanges, Washington wishing to show the muscles against China, which is advancing its pawns in an area long considered by the Americans as their backyard.

Joe Biden’s top adviser for Latin America, Juan Gonzalez, told reporters that the US president is hearing “promote a vision of a safe region” and “democratic”this “which is ultimately in the strategic interest of the United States”.