President Sebastián Pi?era announced on Wednesday that Chile would no longer host next month’s summit of leaders from the Asia-Pacific region, throwing a wrench into plans by Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to secure a trade war truce at the gathering.
The Chilean president was forced to cancel the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, due to be held in mid-November, because of continuing protests against inequality in one of Latin America’s richest countries — the worst civil unrest in Chile since the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet that ended in 1990.
Chile has also pulled out of hosting a UN climate change conference, COP25, which was due to be held in December.