Mexico’s president says no country should be excluded from Americas Summit
- The US has said Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela were unlikely to be invited as the June summit is meant to showcase democracy
- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in his remarks in Cuba’s capital Havana, also said he would keep pushing for the US to lift its decades-old embargo against Cuba
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday during a visit to Cuba that he will emphasise to his US counterpart Joe Biden that no country should be left out of the US-hosted Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June.
“Nobody should exclude anyone,” Lopez Obrador said at a public event.
The US government has stated that Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government were unlikely to be invited because the summit is meant to showcase democracy in the hemisphere.
Lopez Obrador in his remarks in Cuba’s capital also said he would keep pushing for the United States to lift its decades-old embargo against Cuba.
Lopez Obrador on Sunday ended a migration-themed tour of Central America and the Caribbean with a stopover in Cuba, which has seen its own exodus in recent months.
