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Foreign Affairs
| 1 year ago
Obama in Cartagena. (Kevin Lamarque / Courtesy Reuters) In preparatory talks, the countries of the Western Hemisphere that gathered at the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, this past weekend had agreed on a range of initiatives on...
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Japan Times
| 1 year ago
The retired general who won Guatemala's presidency in November seems an unlikely advocate of a kinder approach toward counternarcotics policy. Otto Perez whose party's symbol is a clenched fist campaigned on the promise that his government would...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The US Secret Service prostitute scandal has caused much embarrassment to President Barack Obama and completely tarnished his recent major international summit in Cartagena. More than 20 US military agents, including two supervisors, have been...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
Tongues in Washington and in Latin America were wagging over the details of the scandal, in which at least 11 secret service agents were reported to have consorted with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia ahead of a summit of the Americas there. But...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Indeed, the conference in Colombia went from bad to worse, as some Latin American leaders criticized the United States and Canada for continuing to block Communist-ruled Cuba from attending the 18-year-old conference. The meeting ended on a...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Barack Obama, speaking for the first time about allegations that Secret Service agents hired prostitutes, said ''of course I'll be angry'' if the accusations are proven true. Mr Obama said the agents represent the United States and are supposed to...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Despite a decades-long effort to combat drug trafficking, consumption has continued to rise as violence related to the crackdown has convulsed Latin American nations like Mexico and Colombia. President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, the...
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
Historian Greg Grandin analyzes the U.S.-Colombia "free trade" deal and the deepening split between much of Latin America and Washington following the Summit of the Americas in Colombia. The summit, which was marred by a U.S. prostitution scandal,...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
A Pan-American summit has ended in discord here as regional leaders failed to agree on Cuba's inclusion in future summits in the face of US and Canadian opposition. US President Barack Obama, who defended his stance on Havana at a post-summit...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
The incident, which saw 11 Secret Service and five military personnel pulled from their security duties in Colombia at the Summit of the Americas, overshadowed the talks attended by Obama and other regional leaders. The US Secret Service, which has...
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The Herald
| 1 year ago
Colombia Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's...
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The Macon Telegraph
| 1 year ago
Granted, most of the presidents and prime ministers spent much of their time during their public appearances talking about Latin America's demands that Cuba be invited to future U.S.-Latin American summits, and that a planned summit final declaration...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The Washington Post President Obama said Sunday that he wants the investigation of the prostitution scandal that led 11 U.S. Secret Service agents to be returned home from Cartagena, Colombia, where they had been sent to provide protection for him,...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-04-16 10:55 AM Leaders attending the Americas summit Sunday in Colombia will not issue a final statement because of disagreement over whether Cuba should be...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Colombia 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, which the United States firmly opposes. The standoff...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama is praising the free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia, saying it includes protections for workers and the environment that will serve as a "win" for both countries. Obama and Colombian President Juan...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
President Obama said Sunday he would be angry if an internal investigation showed that Secret Service personnel were involved in misconduct while in Colombia because he expected his delegation to act with the "utmost in dignity and probity."
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama sits in front of a large video screen displaying an image of a U.S. national flag during a three-way conversation with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, not pictured, at the CEO...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
16 Latin America's opposition to the decades-old US isolation of communist Cuba has put more pressure on President Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas and threatened to sink a final declaration. Seeking on Sunday to woo a region whose trade...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Cartagena, Colombia April 16, 2012 Read later On their own: US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the summit. United States and Canada standing firm, but alone, against everyone else's insistence that Cuba join future...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Leaders from across the Americas were to wrap up a two-day gathering here Sunday with US President Barack Obama under intense Latin American pressure to let Cuba attend future hemispheric summits. Saturday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama as they arrive at the San Felipe Castle for a state dinner before the start of the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, April 13, 2012...President Barack Obama is facing sustained pressure from his counterparts at the Summit of...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
05 Barack Obama, the US president, has ruled out a U-turn on drug policy and dismissed calls for greater political engagement with Cuba, as the two-day summit of the Americas continues in Colombia. Speaking ahead of the main heads-of-state meeting on...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 15, 2012 At a summit of leaders from across the Americas held in Colombia, President Obama emphasized that the U.S. would not shift strategies in the war on drugs. His administration had in recent weeks faced criticism from some presidents who...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Colombia (AP) — Could this weekend's gathering of 33 Western Hemisphere leaders be the last Summit of the Americas?
The question remained unanswered ahead of Sunday's private retreat of the leaders.
Washington was standing...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 1 year ago
46 p.m., April 14, 2012 President Barack Obama and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wave to the audience at the end of their three-way conversation that included Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, not pictured, at the CEO Summit of the...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Cuba's allies to boycott future Americas summits Cartagena: Cuba's allies in Latin America declared on Saturday that they would stay away from future hemispheric summits if the communist island nation was not invited to attend. Increasing calls to...
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PRWeb
| 1 year ago
April 14, 2012 The First CEO Summit of the Americas wrapped up today with calls for greater cooperation among Western Hemisphere nations on matters ranging from trade and investment to education, science and technology and security, in order to...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Story continues below Accompanied by Colombian president and summit host Juan Manuel Santos and his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff, Obama praised both for heading governments that are models of transparency and for leading their countries to...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Obama voiced his view in his first public remarks at the hemispheric event during a meeting of business leaders, where he was part of a panel alongside Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. The possibility of...
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Newyork Times
| 1 year ago
The issue was placed on the agenda of the Summit of the Americas this weekend by the host, Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos . Even so, Mr. Santos suggested that he had in mind some unspecified middle ground short of fully decriminalizing the...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama sits in front of a large video screen displaying an image of a U.S. national flag during a three-way conversation with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, not pictured, at the CEO...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Colombia Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a pitch for Canada's mining industry Saturday as Western Hemisphere leaders gathered to discuss critical issues such as whether to decriminalize the illegal drug trade. In a speech to senior business...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Despite a host of weighty topics at the two-day Summit of the Americas in Colombia, much of the corridor chatter revolved around a scandal involving some of Obama's secret service agents sent home from Colombia for "misconduct." A Colombian...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Colombia Close your eyes, ignore the language difference, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. presidential campaign had come to this antique walled city on the Caribbean. Or, more accurately, that the U.S. presidential campaign had...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama is calling for more cooperation among the nations of the Western Hemisphere to assure economic growth and make certain that globalization benefits all levels of society. On a separate issue expected to come up at this weekend'...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Colombia (AP) — Declaring that a new environment for cooperation exists in the Americas, President Barack Obama sought to convince U.S. business Saturday that he's serious about expanding trade in Latin America while persuading the region to look...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
President Obama said Saturday that he is open to a debate about current drug laws but that he believes legalizing narcotics could lead to even greater problems in those countries hardest hit by trafficking and violence. Obama told Colombian President...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez is skipping the Summit of the Americas, heading off a potential face-to-face confrontation with Barack Obama. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro tells state-run Venezuela Television that Chavez has...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Dana Farrington Secret Service agents have been sent home from Colombia for alleged misconduct. President Obama arrived in the country Friday for the two-day Summit of the Americas. The agents have been replaced, and the Secret Service says its...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Obama will set the tone Saturday when he meets with top CEOs from the hemisphere who are holding their own parallel high level meeting during the Summit of the Americas. Among those expected are executives from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PepsiCo, Yahoo...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
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...
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Denver Post
| 1 year ago
Putting an election year spin on his international agenda, President Barack Obama on Friday cast Latin America's rapid rise as a business opportunity for the U.S. economy. On his way to a regional summit in Colombia, he told voters in Florida, "While...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
Colombia Fears of violence marred Saturday's opening of a summit gathering US President Barack Obama and Latin American leaders when four bombs went off here and in the Colombian capital. Two of the crude devices exploded in the resort city of...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
Washington should turn back to alliances with neighbours in Latin America rather than focus on faraway conflicts like Afghanistan, Colombia's president said on Friday before welcoming US President Barack Obama to the Americas Summit. US influence has...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
00 US President Obama says the onus is on Cuba to change its relationship with the United States [Reuters] With deep ideological fissures dividing the Americas over the last decade, US President Barack Obama arrived in Colombia on Friday for summit...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Regional summits are most often perfunctory events where presidents share their visions, sign agreements and pose for photographs. At the sixth Summit of the Americas, some Latin American leaders hope to sway -- or at least challenge -- the...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Summit set to highlight changing US-Latin America ties BBC Mundo, Bogota Security is tight for the summit in Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast The colonial Colombian city of Cartagena has become, once again, a fortress as it prepares to host...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama touted the U.S. trade relationship with Latin America Friday as he prepared to leave for the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. Speaking at the port of Tampa, in the southern U.S. state of Florida, President Obama...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 1 year ago
Colombia Barack Obama will be on the defensive heading into this weekend's Summit of the Americas, with the U.S. stubbornly clinging to positions opposed by most Latin American and Caribbean leaders as its influence in the region wanes. The...
