Posted on 06/09/2022 2:10:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was the sort of diplomatic rebuff a small country like El Salvador generally can rarely afford to make.
In the run-up to this week’s Summit of Americas in Los Angeles, senior U.S. officials frantically worked the phones seeking to boost attendance?
Among those efforts, the State Department sent a message that Secretary of State Antony Blinken wanted to speak with President Nayib Bukele last weekend.
In the end, Bukele didn’t take the bait and the call never happened, said two people close to the Salvadoran president, who insisted on being given anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic dealings.
Another request to set up a call with Blinken, made through the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, was similarly rebuffed.
The concerted effort by Blinken to reach out to one of the Biden administration’s frequent targets in Latin America underscores the lengths to which U.S. officials went to avoid an embarrassing flop at the summit.
It also demonstrates how controversial leaders like Bukele, who skirted criticism from the Trump administration in exchange for wholesale support of its crackdown on migration, have struggled to adjust to a return to a traditional foreign policy under Biden.
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Nobody respects this clown administration.
Everyone is laughing at senile diaper demented Jackass Joe and his circus of fools.
No one of any importance has the slightest respect for the doddering corrupt pervert in the White House. Our country has become a joke with these vicious incompetent fools pretending to run the show.
“Traditional foreign policy”. Yeh, yanqui imperialism. That’s the ticket.
Blinky has the clout of an earthworm 🤪
“Nobody respects this clown administration.”
They respected Trump or feared him. This summit will go down the memory hole of the MSM it has turned into such a joke.
I guess the MSM will say they had to focus on the Jan 6 Clown Show
Oh Brandon....You should have sent them MORE money. I bit of oversight there.
We knew that in the early months of the Biden Debacle, when Blinken and Co. met with the Chinese in Alaska and had their balls handed to them. The world was watching and took notes.
AP is total dog-sh** propaganda
In sum, leaders who were respected by Trump and made deals where both benefited, now can return to "traditional" foreign policy where they are talked down to and called on when PR is needed.
In the old days many proud Latin American, Salvadorans included, were patriotic for their own countries but admitted a certain respect for America understanding that one did not have to grease the palms of bureaucrats there in order to get service (usually). Today, with the total corruption of the Biden administration, that grudging respect for El Norte is becoming a thing of the past.
Why would they? These failed states have carte blanche to dump their wretched masses on us. It’s like Christmas every day for them
Hey, third world countries don’t respect fourth world countries.
Hunter was already down there looking for 10% for the Demented guy.
So, another country giving Biden the finger.
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