Mexico’s president says the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Honduras will attend a summit on migration that Mexico will host on Sunday.
The four countries are among the biggest sources of migrants currently showing up at the US border.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba and Prime Minister Ariel Henry of Haiti would join Honduran President Xiomara Castro at the meeting in the southern city of Palenque.
López Obrador said the leaders of Ecuador and Guatemala would also attend, and that other countries were expected to send officials to the meeting.
López Obrador said the meeting would address migration and the causes that lead people to leave their home countries.
López Obrador recently acknowledged that migration has soared, with up to 10,000 migrants crossing Mexico every day to reach the US border.
Many come through the jungle-clad Darien Gap. Panama estimates that 420,700 migrants have crossed the gap from Colombia into Panama so far this year, with the full-year figure likely to exceed half a million.
