Global Outlook

 The White House was still completing the invitation list days before the summit in order to appease Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has vowed not to attend unless all states are invited. The backlash arose after the Biden administration decided to exclude leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela due to their dictatorial natures. Bolivian President Luis Arce, like Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has stated that he will not attend until all heads of government in the Americas are invited. The presidents of Argentina, Chile, and Honduras, among others, have joined the call for an all-inclusive conference. Furthermore, there are some who doubt the United States' decision to exclude those three countries. Many of the invited countries, according to an opinion piece published on Aljazeera, are not paragons of the democratic qualities that the US underlined in picking countries to attend the summit. 138 human rights activists were slain in Colombia, a...