HAVANA, CUBA.-The Summit of the Americas to take place next week in Lima Peru, would present a scenario more hostile than that held in Panama three years ago, to which Cuba was invited for the first time after having been excluded for over two decades.

Experts with the Center for Hemispheric Studies and the United States at the University of Havana spoke with PL new agency about possible scenarios of a forum that will focus the fight on corruption, particularly in a country where its president Pedro Pablo Kuczunski resigned his post following corruption scandals.

The high level hemispheric forum will take place April 13 and 14, while in previous days civil society organizations will hold meetings expected to be marked by intense debates.

According to Doctor Ernesto Dominguez one of the scenarios we will see is that of ideological coincidence and convergence of the interest of the Latin America elites and the current US administration.

Not to forget that the rightwing and neoliberal circles have returned to power in this region over the past few years either through elections, or soft and institutional coups.

Another scenario could be that characterizing the US policy towards Latin America as ignorant of the regional situation, which could give way to contradictions including the very elites in Latin America, Dominguez said.

The exclusion of Venezuela of the summit, the threats to attack that country and the escalation of a hostile discourse towards the Cuban Revolution allow to anticipate a tense ambiance in Peru.

For the experts, Trump brings to the Oval Office power positions with Latin America appearing a key zone for the U.S’s foreign policy projections.

The Summit of the Americas was first held in the 1994, in Miami, marked by the US actions to adjust to the regional and global reality of those years. There is a correspondence between the topics addressed at the summits and US foreign policy, whose guidelines are not easy to define beyond general strategies, the experts explained.