He will also hold bilateral meetings with both Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Summit of Americas informally began earlier in the week as world leaders began to arrive in Downtown Los Angeles. However, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declined to show up based on Biden's exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Biden arrived Wednesday
As a result, protests have been held around downtown over recent days and in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center, denouncing the president's decision to exclude the countries. Some climate activists converged on the Seventh Street overpass of the 110 Freeway to call out the Biden administration's reliance on fossil fuels, by dropping a banner as his motorcade drove by.
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