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Jun 8, 2022

Mexican president boycotts U.S.-led summit 6/07/22 Transcript

Mexican president boycotts U.S.-led summit 6/07/22 Transcript
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would not attend the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week because not all countries from the region were invited. Read the transcript here.

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Speaker 1: (00:01)
Mexico’s president said he is sitting out a U.S. led gathering of leaders from the Americas this week. President Andreas Manuel Lopez Obrador said he was boycotting the Summit of the Americas because Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited. State Department Spokesman Ned Price on Monday said the U.S. understood Lopez Obrador’s decision, but made no apologies.

Speaker 2: (00:25)
One of the key elements of this summit is democratic governance, and these three countries are not exemplars, to put it mildly, of democratic governance.

Speaker 1: (00:37)
The decision also comes ahead of U.S. elections in November. With control of the U.S. Congress hanging in the balance, President Joe Biden’s administration is under pressure from a key voting block, Cuban immigrants who favor harsh measures for Latin America’s leftist regimes. But without Lopez Obrador in attendance, U.S. officials now face low expectations for what the summit can actually achieve. That is especially the case with one of Biden’s top priorities, curbing migration at the southern border. That issue is getting even more attention after a large caravan of migrants left southern Mexico on Monday headed towards the U.S. border. Their journey is timed to coincide with the summit kicking off in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Officials in Washington said that the summit will be successful no matter which leaders choose to attend.

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