Ecuador’s president to boycott Americas summit over Cuba’s exclusion

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ecuador’s president to boycott Americas summit over Cuba’s exclusion
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, April 2, 9:47 PM

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa says he’s decided to boycott this month’s Summit of the Americas in Colombia because Cuba is not invited.

Correa made the announcement in a letter he sent Monday to the host president, Juan Manuel Santos.

He took a swipe at the United States, which had rejected Cuban attendance.

Correa called that veto intolerable, the United States “hegemonic” and the U.S. blockade of Cuba “inhumane.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ecuadors-president-to-boycott-americas-summit-over-cubas-exclusion/2012/04/02/gIQAOVq0rS_story.html

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Good! nt

[polly7]

2. Yes, good for him!

[dipsydoodle]

3. Good man

[COLGATE4]

4. He will be sorely missed

[Bacchus4.0]

5. I guess the show must go on but it will be like Van Halen w/o David Lee Roth n/t

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[COLGATE4]

7. I hear you.

[Vidar]

6. Good for Correa.