Obama concludes Summit of the Americas on the defensive about inviting Cuba
Source: Washington Post
President Obama concluded a contentious hemispheric summit on the defensive Sunday as it ended without agreement on whether Cuba’s Communist leaders should be invited to the next meeting, something the United States firmly opposes.
The standoff meant that the sixth Summit of the Americas ended without an official declaration — a negotiated statement of shared principles from the hemisphere’s heads of state — and left open the question of whether there would be a seventh such meeting.
The ambiguous conclusion underscored the fact that Obama, while pledging a new relationship with the United States’ leery southern neighbors, has had little success in bridging significant policy differences that have divided the region for decades.
With the scandal involving a number of Secret Service agents and prostitution coloring the weekend meeting, Obama departed here with the U.S. image mildly blemished and the enduring political differences between the hemisphere’s wealthy north and rising south firmly intact.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/obama-concludes-summit-of-the-americas-on-the-defensive-about-inviting-cuba/2012/04/15/gIQAVrgAKT_singlePage.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
what is this thing about our political leaders, parties ect hating cuba? Is it because Castro took the american playground away from americans.? No more gambling, prostitution, drugs, that must have hurt the1% and the american mafia. Because while we were trying to put ballistic missiles in Turkey, the cubans were going to allow russian missiles? what the hell is it?
