The alleged Summit of the Americas in the U.S. city of Los Angeles, just days before its official opening continues to suffer from a "strange" silence on the part of its hosts and, except for a last-minute invitation to the Spanish, to attend as a person guest of Joe Biden – could it be that Spain is in America? – little new has emerged on the subject.
Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have not been invited - an affront denounced by many other Caribbean and Latin American countries – but attendance from across the Atlantic is justified by Spain’s interest in discussion of the immigration issue. Biden's apparently thinks a country with the highest unemployment rate in Europe Union, 13.3%, has something to add to the conversation, and hopes that Spain will agree to double or triple the number of temporary workers from Central America it accepts, according to an Axios report.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has stated that, if Washington does not invite all countries of the Americas to the Summit, he will not cancel his nation's participation, but will only send a representative.
On another front, reports have begun to appear that some counterrevolutionary haters of Cuban origin based in Miami have announced their attendance at the Summit, presuming to represent our people, regardless of the official delegation from Cuban civil society scheduled to participate in parallel forums in Los Angeles.
Observers are also noting the irony of choosing Los Angeles as the venue for this meeting. Some media outlets, including the Spanish newspaper El País, have labeled the city "the capital of poverty in the United States," noting that the number of "homeless" here has increased by 23% in just one year, three out of four have no access to any kind of shelter or temporary support.
