The week-long Summit of the Americas, slated to start June 8 in Los Angeles, is a big deal for the Western Hemisphere — bringing together leaders from North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.
"The uncertainties surrounding the summit," he added, "are a wake-up call for the United States."
While those exclusions were confirmed, whether Dodd and others can convince AMLO to come anyway is still an open question. The Mexican populist president, who's said he may send his Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard in his place, left the door open -- praising Biden as a "good person, he doesn't have a hardened heart."
"I'm not worried. I think that they'll come," she told reporters as she departed San Jose, Costa Rica, on May 23.
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