US President Joe Biden at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 10.The record number of presidents who did not come to the Summit of the Americas is a geopolitical local loss for US President Joe Biden, says Dmitry Razumovsky, director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The United States refused to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. After that, a number of leaders, including the presidents of Mexico and Bolivia, refused to come to the event. approach to relations with Latin America is a traditional feature of the United States' relations with the entire region,» Razumovsky noted during a press conference at the Russia Today media group. The expert explained that the ideologized approach implies that the values of democracy — in the American view — must ascend to some absolute and be a priority. «This is precisely what explains why these three countries were not invited,» the speaker explained. In his opinion, as a result, the summit can be regarded as Biden's geopolitical loss. It is symbolic that Biden did not call (Venezuelan oppositionist Juan) Guaidó, that is, to some extent, he disowned his supposed protégés in the region, but for whom? This is probably a geopolitical local loss for Biden,» the expert concluded. 
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