Andean Group - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-4466)

This year's Summit of the Americas continued to make global headlines well after its conclusion. Unfortunately for President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and his ambassador to the US, Gabriel Silva Luján, it was not in relation to President Barack Obama's historic three-day visit to the Caribbean city of Cartagena. In a recent interview with the Colombian daily El Espectador Silva described himself as “a slave to the cause” of getting a US president to sleep in Colombia for the first time ever. However, the world media is more interested in the prostitution scandal involving members of the US Secret Service and army.

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