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...Mexico's absence has left a critical leadership hole in the hemisphere's midsection. But as Calderón gets set to host U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on March 23, he looks determined to fill that void again. Last month he convened a summit in Cancún to create a multilateral organization promoting regional unity - a body that includes all 32 Latin American and Caribbean nations but pointedly excludes the U.S. and Canada. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) "makes possible an old desire that [we] have [our] own space for dialogue and political...
Meanwhile, international negotiations will continue this year, culminating again in the annual U.N. climate summit at year's end, to be held in Cancún, Mexico, in November. (At the very least, if thousands of attendees are forced to wait in line outside for hours, as they were in Copenhagen, they'll get a nice tan.) Further complicating any attempt at progress is the growing sense that the U.N. process itself needs to be overhauled, especially after a handful of obstructionist countries managed to slow the Copenhagen negotiations to a crawl...