President Joe Biden is hosting the high-profile summit starting June 8 in Los Angeles.
Highlights
- The Summit of the Americas is slated to start June 8 in Los Angeles.
- Several leaders are threatening to boycott the summit because the U.S.
- has decided to not invite the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua.
- The leaders of Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, and Guatemala have announced they will not attend.
- Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has repeatedly said all of the region’s countries must be invited.
- The Biden administration has been scrambling to shore up attendance, including by dispatching Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Dr.