Full coverage: The 2022 Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles
The U.S. is hosting the conference for the first time since the 1994 inaugural gathering, but it comes amid declining U.S. influence in the region and an unsettled guest list.
President Biden and representatives of 19 other nations sign the Los Angeles Declaration on migration despite key absences at the Summit of the Americas.
Before Summit of the Americas, encampments in downtown Los Angeles were cleared for security. Officials say homeless people were moved to shelters.
Protesters decried the absence of leaders from Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua and other countries. But some suggest that countries that skipped the summit are hurting their own people.
Despite the absence of some of the region’s leaders, the U.S.-hosted summit can tackle issues, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken tells The Times.
U.S. unwillingness to squarely face migration at this week’s Summit of the Americas in L.A. has turned the issue into the elephant in the room.
President Biden formally opens the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on Wednesday with an economic pitch, amid tensions over the guest list.
Activists, dissidents and artists from countries not invited to the Summit of the Americas have made their way to Los Angeles for the event this week.
The Latin American diaspora in Los Angeles is serving U.S. and foreign dignitaries at the ninth Summit of the Americas. But some don’t even know what the summit is about. Others don’t think it’s relevant to their lives. Many wish they had more of a say.
The keynote pieces of the summit start Wednesday with President Biden’s arrival, along with the presence of about 20 of the region’s leaders.
The doubling of private investment commitments in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala is part of the Biden administration’s bid to deter migration.
At the gathering of the hemisphere’s leaders in Los Angeles, Central Americans express disagreement with the politics of their homelands with flags, posters and chants.
The summit’s opening day was overshadowed by an announcement from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that he would not attend, along with complaints from experts that the event lacked focus.
Kamala Harris’ biggest assignment is in Latin America. But she hasn’t gone there much. She has a big assignment coming up representing the U.S. at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
The first Summit of the Americas, in Miami in 1994, opened up an era of promise. Since then, democratic backsliding and a return to autocratic leaders has threatened to overshadow the event.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said concerns over the guest list led him to skip. He wanted Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to be invited.
Traffic is expected to slow in downtown Los Angeles and around Los Angeles International Airport starting Monday night through Saturday.
Immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Mexico are going to demonstrate when leaders from across the hemisphere gather in Los Angeles next week.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggests he’ll instead send his foreign minister to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles next month.
The decision throws the summit, which is crucial to the U.S. ability to demonstrate its influence in the western hemisphere, into further disarray.
A brewing boycott over the invitation list to this year’s Summit of the Americas, planned for Los Angeles next month, has threatened to overshadow the meeting’s agenda.
The Los Angeles Police Department has estimated incurring millions of dollars in overtime and other costs from the Summit of the Americas next month.
Los Angeles is set to host the Summit of the Americas next month, and global politics are shaping the event’s guest list.
