![]() The summit comes at a delicate time for the Biden administration, which is seeking to counter China’s inexorable advance in the region and stem record-high migration at the southern US border. Threats of an empty cocktail reception have caused Washington to reconsider its position as it races to salvage the event. Argentina and Brazil are still on the fence, leaving Colombia, Latin America’s fourth-largest economy whose president is weeks from stepping down, as the most significant confirmed attendee. Potential no-shows include Bolivia, Guatemala and Honduras. The snub from Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has prompted others to follow suit. Mexico has launched a boycott, arguing that the event in Los Angeles should not “be reduced to a ‘Summit of the United States of America’”. But the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which begins on 6 June, looks like it might be less of a knees-up, given that most of those invited don’t plan to attend.Īs host, the US is in charge of invitations and it has excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela on the grounds that their governments were undemocratic. Every three years or so, leaders from the Americas take turns to host their neighbours for a blow-out diplomatic fiesta. And when no one turns up to yours, it’s downright embarrassing. ![]() Not being invited to a party is never a nice feeling.
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