"Si la Casa Blanca presenta una agenda significativa para la cooperación regional, la gente se centrará en eso", dijo Eric Farnsworth de AS/COA a AFP.

The Summit of the Americas "is expressly reserved for democratically leaders," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to CNN.

"It's a battle over whether dictators should be included in a summit for democratic leaders," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to NPR.

Latin American governments are wanting to show Washington that this is a summit of equals, said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The New York Times.

Latin American governments are keen to show Washington it’s a new era. But this is also a tale of democracies in decline, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief.

High-level U.S. government officials and Western Hemisphere leaders discussed post-pandemic recovery and the Summit of the Americas to be held in June.

"The hemisphere has taken a giant step back since the first Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to the Miami Herald.