Summit Latest: Blinken Defends US Exclusion of Autocracies

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, speaks at the summit on June 10. 

Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

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President Joe Biden is hosting the final day of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, a gathering intended to deepen ties between the US and Western Hemisphere countries that has nonetheless exposed clear regional divisions.

The US has announced a series of agreements with countries in the region on economic cooperation, health care, climate change and migration, but they come with little fresh investment by Washington.