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LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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November 13, 2023

Are the U.S. & Latin America Cooperating Well?

U.S. President Joe Biden (sixth from right) and several Western Hemisphere leaders met Nov. 3 at the White House. // Photo: White House.

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  • U.S. President Joe Biden hosted Western Hemisphere leaders at the White House on Nov. 3 for the inaugural Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP) Leaders’ Summit. Ahead of the gathering, the White House said the summit would focus on deepening economic integration, encouraging ‘inclusive and sustainable’ economic growth and addressing the ‘drivers of irregular migration’ in the hemisphere. What did Biden and the Latin American leaders achieve at the gathering? What accomplishments came out of Biden’s bilateral meetings with other heads of state on the sidelines of the summit?  

A

Jorge Heine, research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and former Chilean ambassador to China: “The hosting of this APEP summit at the White House by President Biden is a welcome development in an administration that has so far underdelivered in the Western Hemisphere. APEP, announced 17 months ago at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, will hopefully give a new impetus to inter-American relations. The need for more sustainable infrastructure in Latin America (whose infrastructure deficit seriously hampers its international competitiveness) and for more resilient value chains, much emphasized by President Biden at the meeting, is undisputable. The question is…”

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