Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated, on Monday, that he won't attend the Summit of the Americas hosted by American counterpart Joe Biden in Los Angeles this week.
López Obrador had previously threatened to skip the summit if the Biden administration didn't invite countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
"There cannot be a summit if all countries are not invited," López Obrador said. "Or there can be one but that is to continue with all politics of interventionism."
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A senior U.S. official explained that these countries did not receive invitations over human rights concerns and their "lack of democratic space."
Nevertheless, López Obrador noted that his foreign affairs secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, will lead the Mexican delegation in his absence.
Last March, Mexico expressed full solidarity with Russia, refusing to impose any economic sanctions on Moscow for invading Ukraine.
The Mexican leader criticized what he called censorship of Russian state-sponsored media by social media companies.
“We are not going to take any sort of economic reprisal because we want to have good relations with all the governments in the world,” López Obrador told a news conference.
Mexico’s position stands in contrast to the international sanctions imposed on Russia for President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine.
Last year, López Obrador skipped the G20 summit in Rome as he has rarely travelled abroad since taking charge of Mexico in 2018. The president also did not attend the one that was held in Japan in 2019 before COVID-19 hit.
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