Mexican president boycotts Summit of the Americas

[pecksniff]

USA Today:

WASHINGTON – Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Monday that he is skipping this week's Ninth Summit of the Americas, a blow to President Joe Biden as he tries to unite the region to address migration.

“There cannot be a summit if all countries are not invited,” López Obrador said at a press conference Monday after the United States refused to invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the summit.

He said Mexico's foreign affairs secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, will attend the summit instead. López Obrador said he will meet with Biden in July.

López Obrador has been threatening to boycott the summit if the United States didn't invite every country in the region, including the autocratic leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The Biden administration said they do not want to invite countries that have not upheld democratic principles.

López Obrador's absence is likely to be seen as a snub to Biden as the U.S. prepares to host the summit for the first time since its inception in 1994. The summit is scheduled to begin Wednesday.
The White House has said climate change, COVID-19 and the economy aregoing to be among some of the issues discussed.

Politics sure is complicated.

But at least this shoots dead any notion that Biden is a "communist." If he were, he would have invited the leaders of Cuba, etc.

 

[pecksniff]

Cuba is certainly a dictatorship, but it is not fair to say Nicaragua or Venezuela "have not upheld democratic principles." Every election Chavez or Maduro won was free and fair according to international observers.

 

[JohnnySavage]

But we do business with china and saudi arabia...

 

[pecksniff]

But we do business with china and saudi arabia...

[stereotypical Mob Don voice] That is business. This is personal.

 

[pecksniff]

Well, anyway, AMLO just rose considerable in my estimation.

 

[Rightguide]

USA Today:



Politics sure is complicated.

But at least this shoots dead any notion that Biden is a "communist." If he were, he would have invited the leaders of Cuba, etc.

Doesn't have anything to do with or without Biden being a communist. It has more to do with whether or not he's competent to conduct or contribute to such a meeting. The other possibility is the Cartels who are presently running Mexico are just thumbing their noses at Joe and his disjointed ideas.