Mexico’s President Boycotts US-Hosted Americas Summit

Mexico’s President Boycotts US-Hosted Americas Summit
A banner hangs on the Los Angeles Convention Center, the location for the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on June 5, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Jill McLaughlin
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LOS ANGELES—Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador announced on June 6 that he would boycott the Summit of the Americas, which is kicking off this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and not attend due to the United States’ exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

“I am not going to the Summit because not all the countries of the Americas are invited,” Obrador said in a statement translated online. “I believe in the need to change the policy that has been imposed for centuries, exclusion, wanting to dominate for no reason, not respecting the sovereignty of countries … All countries, no matter how small, are free and independent.”

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