The White House could see a wave of defections from a Summit of the Americas conference in June as Latin America’s largest economies insist on invites for Washington’s antagonists.
An ultimatum by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is putting pressure on President Joe Biden to invite Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan leaders to the three-yearly meeting or face a boycott. Lopez Obrador lit into U.S. sanctions this month, declaring that if Biden did not invite all countries in the region, he would not attend.
The event, according to a State Department website, is “Biden’s highest priority event for the region.” Asked whether Cuba, whose leaders attended the summit in 2015, would be invited, Nichols suggested they would not. “Are Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela not countries in the Americas?” said Zhao Lijian, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, during a recent event. Beijing has pursued trade and investments in Latin America and commodities such as copper and lithium.
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