Weekly Report - 26 October 2004

Latin America has a busy diplomatic calendar for the rest of the year which just might produce major developments. A summit of the Rio Group in November could, if Brazil gets its way, result in the incorporation of longtime pariah Cuba. Another summit in December, this time of South American heads of state, could witness the creation of the South American Community of Nations, fruit of a formal merger of Mercosur and the Andean Community (CAN).