When President Biden and senior members of his administration explore the future of the Americas with other regional leaders this week, the United States will face a somewhat unusual experience: focusing on its neighbors to the south.
The Summit of the Americas scheduled in Los Angeles with leaders of Latin American countries comes as the administration has spent months trying to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion that began in February. The summit has also been attempting to execute a long-delayed pivot to Asia, where China keeps pressing for more influence.
When Biden took office, many officials in the region were hopeful that the president, with his foreign policy credentials and his role spearheading regional engagement under President Barack Obama, would herald an era of renewed involvement following the Trump administration’s more transactional approach, which focused largely on pressing Mexico and Central America to curb migration.
Rebecca Bill Chavez, a former Pentagon official who serves as head of the Inter-American Dialogue, said the administration must sustain high-level engagement on the region. “The United States has been engaged in intensive efforts and has exercised brutal pressures to demobilize the just and firm claims of the majority of the countries of the region demanding that the summit should be inclusive,” he said on Twitter on May 25.be whether Mexico’s leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, decides to attend.
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