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President Joe Biden is gathering leaders from countries across the Americas on Friday in the U.S. capital to discuss the tightening of supply chains and addressing migration issues. In a preview of the first Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity Leaders’ Summit, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Thursday that the two-day event would be a “once in a generation opportunity” to shift more of the global supply chains to the Western Hemisphere. Kirby said the summit would also involve the “shared migration challenge” and the building of “meaningful economic opportunity” among the countries in the region.
Many see the Biden administration’s various summit and conference initiatives and their respective budgetary allocations as achieving relatively minimal results for the effort made.
In his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama completedtwo whirlwind tours of Europe and Latin America. His message on both continents was simple: America has made many mistakes in thepast, but we're ready now to listen to others and be more flexible.It was a hugely popular message that brought him thunderousapplause, particularly when he criticized or apologized forAmerica-to an extent that no other sitting American President haddone before on foreign soil.
Confronted by serious economic problems domestically and unprecedented foreign challenges to the U.S.'s historically dominant role in Latin America, will President Obama will use theSummit of the Americas to increase domestic prosperity andsecurity? Here's how to keep score.
By most press accounts, President Bush took a pounding at the recent Americas Summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina. But two other presidents, Nestor Kirchner of Argentina and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, have the most bruises.
The Obama administration says it's in the process of altering our nation's policies in Latin America. It promises modest steps to allow Cuban-Americans to travel more often, for example, and seems to be leaning toward further diplomatic overtures elsewhere. But "change" isn't always an improvement.
Since the U.S. created the Summit of the Americas process in 1994 the summits have been burdened by international bureaucrats pushing for taxpayer-funded, statist development programs and hijacked by Hugo Chavez and other anti-American, anti-globalization activists. In its place, the Bush Administration should immediately announce a Western Hemisphere Trade Summit with the U.S.'s FTA partners, including Panama and Colombia.