The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, points out that more than US$3.2 billion of investment has been generated in the Northern Triangle.
The United States did not invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the Ninth Summit of the Americas.
The questioned president Nicolás Maduro directly asked the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, who is the leader of CELAC, to put together a "real summit".
The United States arrives at the summit with a leadership under question, according to some analysts.
The relationship with the hemisphere has changed and it is not the same as in 1994, when the first summit was held in Miami.