Reality star Paris Hilton said she turned down a gig to DJ for an event with President Joe Biden so that she could go to pop star Britney Spears’ wedding instead.
Leftist President Gabriel Boric of Chile appeared not to recognize President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy John Kerry at a Summit of the Americas event on Thursday, railing against America for not partaking while Kerry was only two seats away from Boric.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro mocked Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo and appeared to insult his intelligence on Thursday in response to Ruffalo accusing Bolsonaro of threatening a “coup” in his own country.
President Joe Biden did not engage in confrontation in his first in-person meeting with conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, likely disappointing leftist activists who flooded Los Angeles with photos of the latter urging Biden to condemn him in the past week.
President Joe Biden’s decision to invite neither Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro nor its rightful president, Juan Guaidó, to this week’s Summit of the Americas is a prelude to “normalizing” the Maduro regime that will have “an important political cost” for Biden with Hispanic voters, Rubén Chirino Leañez, CEO of the Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis, told Breitbart News.
Chinese government propaganda outlets condemned the ongoing Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on Wednesday as an irrelevant “sideshow,” encouraging Latin American countries to ignore President Joe Biden’s economic proposals and sign onto China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), instead.
The president made his remarks at the Summit of Americas in Los Angeles, despite multiple leaders of prominent Central American countries choosing not to attend the summit.
A feared mass leftist boycott of the Summit of the Americas, which began on Monday in Los Angeles, never materialized as the socialist leaders of Argentina, Chile, and Peru all left Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador alone to protest boycott in defense of the region’s dictatorships.
China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times mocked the allegedly “awkward situation” President Joe Biden will find in this week’s Summit of the Americas on Tuesday, claiming that leftists in Latin America had tanked the event to show “Latin America is not a ‘backyard’ of the U.S.”
Leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed on Monday morning that he would not attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in a rant in which he used various false statements to accuse Cuban-Americans generally of “genocide” and portrayed President Joe Biden as a hostage to Cuban-American voters.
Obrador officially declined Biden’s invitation because the United States did not invite Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to the summit, even though he called the president a “good man.”
Two senior administration officials told reporters on Wednesday that President Joe Biden was still in “final considerations” for the invite list to next week’s Summit of the Americas – meaning the president had yet to decide who to invite for an event beginning on Monday.
The Communist Party of Cuba thanked its counterpart in China on Tuesday for pressuring the administration of President Joe Biden to invite Cuba to next week’s Summit of the Americas, an event technically reserved for democracies.
U.S. State Department official Kevin O’Reilly, coordinator of the Summit of the Americas scheduled to begin on June 6, said on Thursday that a final decision has been made to exclude Venezuela and Nicaragua. The Biden administration is still struggling to decide whether Cuba will be invited.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed Thursday that he would travel to Los Angeles in June for the Summit of the Americas and said he planned to meet American counterpart Joe Biden in person, adding that Biden treated him “as if I didn’t exist” during their last meeting, and blaming the snub on “age.”
The Biden administration has reportedly invited Spain to attend the Summit of the Americas, scheduled next month in Los Angeles. The summit was already controversial in Latin America because the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited to attend. The invitation to former regional colonial power Spain could become a further irritation.
The foreign minister of Cuba railed against the United States for its “racist” policies and its alleged lack of respect for human rights in a meandering press conference on Monday – the first major declaration from the Castro regime after President Joe Biden offered friendly talks to the Communist Party last week.
The White House announced this week that it had appointed former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) as official advisers for the upcoming Summit of the Americas.
U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence failed to explicitly address the growing threat linked to the intensifying operational presence in Latin America of state-sponsor of terror Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah while speaking to regional leaders during the Summit of the
Estimated thousands of members of the Venezuelan exile community in Peru marched on the streets of Lima Thursday night to demand that the Summit of the Americas, which the city is currently hosting, address the socialist-driven humanitarian crisis in their country.
Dozens of Cuban government agents forced the shutdown of a forum on civil society in the hemisphere at the Summit of the Americas Thursday by shouting over all the speakers until organizers postponed the meeting. The incident is an example of what pro-democracy activists call a “climate of violence” that the regime has brought to the event.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has finally given up on his plan to crash the Summit of Americas, having previously promised to attend come “rain, hail, or shine.”
The White House announced this week that President Donald Trump will be the first president to skip the Summit of the Americas in the history of that event, blaming tensions erupting in Syria for his decision.
The official communist Cuban delegation arrived in Lima, Peru, this week for this year’s Summit of the Americas, chanting pro-Castro slogans and defacing art calling for a free society on the island.
President Donald Trump will urge Latin American countries to accept the United States as their trading “partner of choice” instead of China in Peru next week, according to senior administration officials.
President Donald Trump does not plan to sit down with Cuba’s President Raul Castro during his attendance at the Summit of the Americas.
Cuban pro-democracy activist Guillermo Fariñas announced via Twitter on Wednesday that communist authorities told a fellow dissident that no individual known to oppose the Castro regime will be allowed to engage in “visa procedures” until the Summit of the Americas ends next month.
Cuban state propaganda newspaper Granma called for a regional “Latin America First” policy to combat the alleged “Monroe doctrine” revival occurring under President Donald Trump this week, promoting a “Thinking Americas Forum” to replace the pro-democracy Summit of the Americas that Trump is expected to attend.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told reporters this week that his boss, dictator Nicolás Maduro, would attend the annual Summit of the Americas despite being disinvited, with the aid of other leftist governments in the hemisphere.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced during Monday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump will travel to Peru and Colombia in April.
Americans who hold Peruvian land bonds are ramping up efforts to seek help from President Donald Trump and his administration in collecting payouts that Peru has been slow to pay, but a previous winner of the first-ever “Globalist of the Year” award stands in their way.
An increasingly isolated Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro urged President Donald Trump to engage in a “dialogue” with him as soon as possible, shortly before the opening of the Summit of the Americas, which Maduro has threatened to attend despite not being invited.
The Spanish government has lodged a formal complaint with Venezuela’s ambassador to Madrid after President Nicolás Maduro accused Spanish President Mariano Rajoy of being a “racist” in a national broadcast, adding, “In Spain, they are all racists.”
A Costa Rican journalist reports that Cuban dictator Raúl Castro claimed at the Summit of the Americas this past weekend that he will step down as head of state in 2018 and implied that Cuba may hold elections to replace him.
With a cordial evening handshake, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro moved Friday toward a groundbreaking meeting on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in what would be a remarkable display of reconciliation between two nations.
Last week, the White House promised that President Barack Obama would engage in an “interaction” with Cuban dictator Raúl Castro at the Summit of the Americas. The summit begins officially Friday, and more details have surfaced on what that interaction will entail: the two leaders, who shared a phone conversation Thursday night, will share the stage at the summit Friday.
A group of Cuban dissidents invited to attend events at this weekend’s Summit of the Americas were insulted and physically assaulted by a swarm of dozens of communist Cuban officials and supporters in Panama on Wednesday.
The Summit of the Americas begins tomorrow, but the presence of dictatorships at the table with the rest of the Western Hemisphere’s democratic nations has already begun to cause havoc. On Wednesday, representatives of the socialist governments of Venezuela and Cuba walked out of the pre-Summit Forum on Civil Society due to the presence of pro-democracy activists.
PANAMA CITY (AP) — A group of more than 100 supporters of Cuba’s government aggressively heckled dissidents from the communist island attending a civil society forum at a region-wide summit here.
American officials have confirmed that President Barack Obama will engage Cuban dictator Raúl Castro in an unspecified “interaction” at this week’s Summit of the Americas.