MEXICO CITY, JUNE 10: As the ninth Summit of the Americas gets underway in Los Angeles, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador maintained his desire for a change in regional exclusion policies, despite the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

"If we do nothing to reform this hegemonic approach that disregards people's sovereignty and country independence; if we keep silent, it will persist," President Obama said at a media briefing. "I believe it is an anachronistic, outdated, and unfair policy that must be abandoned, and a new stage in the relationship of all the fraternal peoples and governments of the American continent must be initiated," he said.

Despite the presence of Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard at the conference, Lopez Obrador stated that the Mexican government is "under protest" owing to the exclusions.

The Summit began on Wednesday and will conclude on Friday. Global themes such as measures to enhance economic growth, combat climate change, and the Covid-19 pandemic will be discussed.

It was, however,  overshadowed, by the absence of a number of Latin American leaders, including those from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, who boycotted the summit, and those from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, who were excluded by Washington.

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