"It's always been difficult to find consensus in Latin America," said Ryan Berg, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. Yet the summit has hardly lived up to the promise put forth by the US president, particularly with the notable summit boycott by Mexico's president and uncertainty as to whether the right incentives exist for Latin America to draw more closely to the US. With diplomatic efforts strained by summit boycotts and legislative proposals stranded in a polarized Congress, Biden focused on trying to get corporations and the private sector behind his efforts. That had already created low expectations at a summit that the United States is hosting for the first time since 1994. The disparities in wealth, governance and national interests make it challenging for Biden to duplicate the partnerships he has assembled in Asia and Europe. So this does not happen again, I would like to say, for the future, the fact that a country is the host country of the summit does not have the ability to impose the right of admission on member countries of the continent."
"The silence of those who are absent is calling to us.
"We definitely would have wished for a different Summit of the Americas," Fernández said in Spanish. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. Geography, not politics, defines the Americas."īiden faced additional criticism from Argentina's President Alberto Fernández. And that is why the Summit of the Americas should have been inclusive. "At this most critical juncture, when the future of our hemisphere is at stake, we stand divided. "This summit belongs to all of the Americas – it is therefore inexcusable that there are countries of the Americas that are not here, and the power of the summit is diminished by their absence," Briceño said. Quick on the heels of Biden's remarks, Belize Prime Minister John Briceño publicly objected to countries being excluded from the summit by the US and to the continued US embargo on Cuba. "There is no reason why the Western Hemisphere can't be the most forward looking, most democratic, most prosperous, most peaceful, secure region in the world," Biden said at the start of the summit. LOS ANGELES (AP) - United States President Joe Biden tried to present a unifying vision for the Western Hemisphere today but the Summit of the Americas quickly spilled into open discord in a telling illustration of the difficulties of bringing North and South America together around shared goals on migration, the economy and climate.
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