Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced May 27 that he will not go to Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas, June 6-10, unless the White House invites the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which the White House has snubbed. In fact, last week, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said he had no intention of attending the Summit, “under no circumstances.”
“If all the countries are not invited, I am not going to attend,” AMLO said Friday at a press conference. He has indicated, already, that he will send his Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard instead. “Is it going to be the Summit of the Americas or the Summit of the Friends of America? Because if those countries are excluded, what continent are they from? Are they not from the Americas?”
AMLO’s direct statement is the latest blow to the attempt of the White House to get a show of Hemispheric solidarity with the U.S., on its key geopolitical positions, especially insistence to oppose China and Russia, and go along with the Green Reset. President Joe and Jill Biden will personally be in Los Angeles June 8. Even before the Summit opens, it has become a fiasco.
