"Leaders seemed to want to focus on the things that divide the region, including the attendance list," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to the Miami Herald.

"Fue una reunión tensa, pero también encontraron alguna manera de hablar entre ellos", dijo el vicepresidente de política de AS/COA.

"The region was left with the feeling that the U.S. didn’t care," said AS/COA's Steve Liston on the United States' late Summit planning to The Atlantic.

Some Latin American leaders are on the fence about attending the hemispheric summit in California.

"Que [Alberto] Fernández usara su discurso para tratar de ofender a su anfitrión fue desafortunado", dijo Eric Farnsworth de AS/COA a El Nuevo Herald.

"Biden ve a Bolsonaro como una copia de Trump…Bolsonaro quiere mostrar que no acepta presiones", dijo Brian Winter de AS/COA a Clarín.

"You have a U.S. government that has tried to place democracy front and center in its foreign policy," said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The Washington Post.