Threats of Boycott Cast a Shadow over Biden's Summit of the Americas
Threats of Boycott Cast a Shadow over Biden's Summit of the Americas
"The hemisphere has taken a giant step back since the first Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to the Miami Herald.
The White House has not made a final decision on which countries will be invited to the forthcoming Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, following warnings by Mexico’s president that he would skip the regional gathering next month if the authoritarian leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are excluded.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not the only one threatening to boycott the largest gathering of leaders from the Western Hemisphere, which the U.S. will host for the first time since the inaugural Summit in Miami in 1994. […]
“More to the point, carrying water for the brutal Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela dictatorships deep into the 21st century is just not something that instills confidence in a future-oriented, pragmatic approach to economic competitiveness and social development,” said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in Washington, D.C.
“It seems the hemisphere has taken a giant step back since the first Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994,” he added. […]
