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Weekly Report - 09 February 2012 (WR-12-06)
CUBA: Castro and Obama around the same table?
“You eat and leave,” Mexico’s President Vicente Fox famously told Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 2002 to avoid an awkward run-in with US President George W Bush at a UN-sponsored summit on financing for development in Monterrey. It is difficult to imagine Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos being quite as tactless if Fidel’s brother Raúl were to attend the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias on 14 and 15 April, but he would face the same challenge to keep him apart from US President Barack Obama. It may not happen but, in the same week that the US trade embargo on Cuba turned 50, Latin America’s radical left-wing governments are threatening to boycott the Summit unless an invitation is extended to Cuba.
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