(CNN Spanish) — Less than a week to go until the start of the Summit of the Americas And there is a question that still cannot be fully answered: who will attend?
The presence of the American leaders at the meeting organized by the Government of President Joe Biden in Los Angeles has been at the center of the discussions since the possible exclusion of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba from the event began to be discussed.
Several presidents of the region, including the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have insisted that all countries should be part of the summit and made their participation conditional on this factor.
This is what we know regarding who will participate and who will not.
The presidents who do plan to attend the Summit of the Americas
Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro’s foreign minister confirmed to CNN that the president will participate in the summit and hopes to hold a bilateral meeting with Biden.
Canada: Justin Trudeau will participate, as can be deduced from a call he had with Biden in which, according to the white housethey rightly discussed the summit and their shared goal of growth.
Chile: President Gabril Boric will also participate, as confirmed by his chancellor at a press conference, who criticized the exclusion of Maduro, Díaz-Canel and Ortega, reported CNN Chile.
Costa Rica: “Going to the summit is the right thing to do for our country,” he said in interview with Efe President Rodrigo Chávez.
Ecuador: Guillermo Lasso, who recently met with Biden, confirmed his participation in the summit, according to the Archyde.com report.
Panama: Laurentizo Cortizo confirmed in april Secretary of State Antony Blinken who would participate in the meeting.
Paraguay: Mario Abdo will participate in the summit, according to EEFEwhich quotes the foreign minister of the country that currently holds the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur.
Peru: Pedro Castillo asked Congress for permission to travel to the United States to the summit, reports Eefe.
Dominican Republic: Luis Abinader confirmed his participation, according to the EEFE report used by various mediaand affirmed that he respected the decision of the United States, although his country will invite all the presidents when it hosts the Ibero-American Summit next year.
Uruguay: President Lacalle Pou referred to his participation in the summit in a recent interview with the BBC, and He received to the US envoy this week, who “congratulated and thanked” the country for its “leadership toward a democratic region,” according to the embassy.
in the process of deciding
Argentina: President Alberto Fernández was another of those who spoke publicly regarding the need for all leaders to be invited to the summit and questioned their participation. However, several local media reports They point to the fact that he will finally attend.
Colombia: In March, outgoing President Iván Duque had referred to the “magnificent opportunity” that the Summit of the Americas represented, which might suggest their participation. Recently, Vice President and Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez said that the issue of democracy might not be “avoided” on the agenda, according to Ephbut did not confirm Duke’s attendance.
Those who will not (or probably will not) participate in the summit
Bolivia: President Luis Arce is one of those who confirmed that it will not participate following the refusal of the United States to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Cuba: “I can assure you that in no case will I attend,” he wrote in a long twitter thread President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who stated that “the United States government conceived from the beginning that the Summit of the Americas would not be inclusive.”
Guatemala: Alejandro Giammatti confirmed in an event that he would not participate in the summit in the United States, who has criticized the recent re-election of his attorney general, Consuelo Porras. “I said it and I repeat it to the ambassador of that nation that this country might be of this size (small), but that as long as I was president, this country was respected and its sovereignty is respected,” he claimed.
Honduras: Xiomara Castro is another of those who conditioned her participation to the invitation of all the presidents. “I will attend the Summit only if all the countries of America without exception are invited. ‘The most worthy study of an American is America,'” she wrote in Twitter.
Mexico: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been one of the most vocal regarding participation in the summit: he repeatedly stated that if the United States excluded countries from the region, as it did with Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, it would not participate.
Nicaragua: The United States did not invite President Daniel Ortega, who had already spoken out once morest the summit before his exclusion was confirmed. “We are not interested in being at that summit,” he said, “that summit does not exalt anyone… that summit dirty, muddy“.
Venezuela: the Biden Government neither invited to questioned President Nicolás Maduro, who has been vocal regarding his absence. “In Venezuela we have a clear path: union, inclusion, diversity, democracy and the right to build our own destiny. We reject the pretensions of excluding and discriminating once morest peoples in the Summit of the Americas“He wrote regarding it on Twitter.
