President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that other Latin American leaders, like him, “are not happy” with the Summit of the Americas organized by the United States (EU), and which is scheduled to take place next month in California, because not all the countries are invited.
Ayer, the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, stressed that he will not attend the event if all nations are not included.
Trinidad and Tobago opted for the Summit not to be exclusive and the countries of the Caribbean Community (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) are discussing whether they will attend the meeting.
US State Department officials They confirmed last week that Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba were not considered “because they do not respect democracy.”