Latin America Advisor 2022-06-14 – Inter-American Dialogue

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June 13, 2022

Will the Summit of the Americas Lead to Lasting Change?

During the Summit of the Americas last week in Los Angeles, U.S. President Joe Biden called for progress on migration and other issues in the Western Hemisphere. // Photo: U.S. State Department.

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The Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles featured a call from U.S. President Joe Biden for progress on issues including migration, economic development and climate change. Biden also used the gathering of Western Hemisphere leaders to announce the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity, an effort to drive growth, and countries launched the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, a new framework for managing migration. How much progress did the Americas make on shared areas of concern at the summit? What will the gathering lead to in terms of policy changes and improved cooperation in the hemisphere? To what extent did the boycott of some leaders, including Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, over the U.S. decision not to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to the summit, hinder progress? Did the summit meet expectations and achieve its objectives?

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Dan Restrepo, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former special assistant to the president and senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the U.S. National Security Council: “The success or failure of the 9th Summit of the Americas will not be measured by the absence of any leader or group of leaders, which had no impact on the most important issue addressed in Los Angeles. Rather, it will depend largely on the implementation of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, which has the chance to be the most meaningful achievement at a forum that, since its inception in 1994, has been long on personality dramas and short on substantive accomplishments. The Los Angeles Declaration opens the way to a coherent approach to addressing irregular migration that is almost certain to continue…”

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