The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has ruled out attending again to the Summit of the Americas to be held starting this Monday in Los Angeles, so Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrand will attend in his place.
"It is to continue with the old policy of interventionism", The Mexican president has indicated in a press conference, adding that it is "necessary" a change in the policy of exclusion and of not respecting the sovereignty of countries, as reported by the newspaper ‘El Universal’.
It has also indicated that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, it is "A good man" which is under strong pressure from "extremist republicans"as well as Democratic leaders and members of the Cuban community with "influence and hate"according to the aforementioned medium.
At the end of May, López Obrador assured that, due to the veto of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, the Mexican Foreign Minister would attend in his place and indicated that he was not in a hurry to receive a response. "definitive" by the United States.
The US Administration reported at the beginning of May that these three countries would not receive an invitation to the summit in Los Angeles, arguing that they are not democratic nations, a measure that they confirmed this Monday, when the American meeting starts.
Despite this, López Obrador has confirmed that will visit the White House in Julywhen he plans to speak with various high-ranking US officials on regional integration, immigration reform and Central America, as reported by the Bloomberg news agency.
For its part, within the framework of the Summit of the Americas, the Honduran Foreign Ministry has reported on its official Twitter profile that the country will attend the meeting, represented by the Foreign Minister, Eduardo Enrique Reina.
