Newsroom Agência Brasil (Telam)
Cartegena, Colombia – The 6th Summit of the Americas, which brought together 30 heads of government and state for a weekend on the Caribbean coast of Colombia in Cartagena, never promised any kind of significant agreement on any major issues. Those issues were always overshadowed by the issue of Cuba. And when the United States vetoed, along with support from Canada, two articles (paragraphs 17 and 18) in the joint final declaration the joint final declaration collapsed. One of the articles called for the return of Cuba to the next summit in Panama three years from now and the other for an end to the embargo the US has imposed on Cuba since 1962.
The unyielding insistence by Latin American nations that this was to be absolutely the last Summit of the Americas without Cuba has some observers doubting that the next summit, in Panama, will actually take place.
The summit host, president Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, said the event was far from a total collapse, probably because the president of the United States did patiently listen to other Western Hemisphere leaders complain and disagree with the US position on all the issues the US considered important. Besides Cuba, that would include the drug war (where Latin America is fed up with the war and wants a solution).
Link - Cúpula das Américas termina sem consenso sobre inclusão de Cuba
