The Secretary of State shared a selfie with the US Ambassador to Mexico (Photo: Twitter/@m_ebrard)
Ken Salazar, United States Ambassador to Mexicoexpressed confidence that the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will finally attend the Americas Summitwhich takes place from June 6th to 10th City of Los Angeless, following Tabascan’s threat not to attend the event if the government of Joe Biden does not contain in the invitation the Presidents of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
In a conference he was offered by the Embassy of the United States in Mexico, the diplomat expressed his hope in which the Mexican delegation is led by the head of state: “In the way President López Obrador is being worked on, I respectfully hope that he goes, but this is something they are discussing.”
on the tension that might have arisen between the leaders of both nations As a result of the public pressure exerted by the Mexicans, which eventually led to the exposure of a bloc of Latin American governments supporting the call to include the three countries expelled for their anti-democracy practices, Salazar said:
“The relationship between President Biden and President López Obrador is a good relationship based on respectbut also look forward to the meaning of this gathering of the Americas”.
According to UNAM political scientist Mario Alberto Huaracha, AMLO wants to position Mexico ideologically as the “head of a new Latin American left”. (Photo Art: Infobae Mexico)
To try to reconcile the administration before this unforeseen rebellion of the Latin American governments The United States said this Friday that it is considering inviting an official from Cuba’s Foreign Ministry to attend on behalf of President Miguel Díaz-Canel. but only as an observer. In addition, he reiterated that the list of invitees to the Summit of the Americas would be announced at the last minute.
This week President López Obrador and his Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard held a virtual meeting Christopher Doddfrom the White House to Special Advisor to the IX Summit of the Americasto try to tie the diplomatic knot and convince the Mexican President to attend the event in person.
The Mexican executive for its part reiterated his position to condition his visit to Los Angeles as long as Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela are includedand argued that it should be a dialogue that gives a voice to the continent’s entire community.
On the same Friday, May 20, ALO said: “The summit … It is being analyzed, you already know our position: We want everyone to be invited because it’s the Summit of the Americas. We have a very good relationship with President (Joe) Biden, with the US government, and we’re working on that…we’ve been in talks,” he said.
U.S. President Joe Biden reacts during a joint news conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea May 21, 2022. Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool via REUTERS
Also, he reminded me of it On May 19, the US government announced an investment of around 600 million pesos in various projects in Southeast Mexico, for which the Ambassador met with Finance Minister Rogelio Ramírez de la O and the six governors of the region: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Chiapas, Tabasco and Veracruz.
This investment is made after public claims made by López Obrador during his tour of Central America and the Caribbean in which he denounced that the Joe Biden administration has not released promised resources for the economic growth of this part of the continent, a measure intended to reduce the flow of migration.
The aim of this meeting was to analyze investment opportunities, economic development, environmental goals and efforts to combat climate change, and human resource development.
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‘We were in talks’: AMLO insisted all countries should attend Americas Summit US officials are considering inviting a Cuban representative to the Americas Summit: source Head of a New Latin American Left