CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — A summit of 33 Western Hemisphere leaders opens Saturday with the United States and Canada standing firm, but alone, against everyone else's insistence that Cuba join future summits.
The Sixth Summit of the Americas has also taken on a somewhat tabloid tinge with 12 U.S. Secret Service agents sent home for alleged misconduct that apparently included days of heavy pre-summit poolside drinking.
U.S. President Barack Obama has been clinging stubbornly to a rejection of Cuban participation in the summits, which everyone but his northern neighbor deems unjust."This is the last Summit of the Americas," Bolivia's foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, told The Associated Press, "unless Cuba is allowed to take p
Gringos and gringos wannbees stand alone, the do not see that they are on the wrong side of history , Quietly Brazil is becoming an economic superpower where their trade with China exceeds that with the USA. Empires in decline becomes blind to reality
this is the last such summit anyway. the latins cant continue the way thigs have been going. they do at the peril of destrouing their countries.
the war on ..which is a war for drugs...is national suicide. deh simply cant continue with it. also it is insane for Cuba to be left out of things... and if the USA/Canada wont come on board on these 2 issues in partticular among many others...there is no need for such summits
