Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Monday that he will boycott President Biden’s Summit of the Americas after the US refused to invite the authoritarian leftist leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.López Obrador’s withdrawal from the Los Angeles summit belies White House hopes that the five-day event would highlight warmer relations between the US and Latin America after former President Donald Trump clashed with the region’s leaders over illegal immigration and drugs.“There can’t be a Summit of the Americas if all the countries of the continent don’t participate,” López Obrador told reporters in Spanish, making good on his threat to skip the event. “That would be to continue with the old interventionist policy of lack of respect for nations and their people.”
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