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Maybe not. But it does need foreign aid, and booting a mid-level U.S. embassy messenger out of your country isn't the best way to cultivate it. Either way, this is the kind of atmosphere Obama will fly into in April when he attends his first regional summit, the Summit of the Americas, in Trinidad. It's instructive to note that Astorga's offending letter was dated Jan. 8 - while former President Bush, whose hemispheric policy was as ham-handed as any in memory, was still in office. Obama's first job in Trinidad is to convince the Latin...
...Gaddafi quickly vowed to pursue his dream of reorganizing the 53-member body into a political federation akin to the United States. He promised that the continent would consider the proposal--which many leaders in the short term oppose and which experts regard as unlikely--at a July summit. Libya, which has been assailed for human-rights violations and supporting terrorism during Gaddafi's 39-year rule, normalized relations with...
...TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel and me for advice, and we thought it had the makings of a groundbreaking cover story. Walter is, of course, a former managing editor of TIME and now president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, with which we are collaborating this summer on a summit in Aspen that will explore the different ways each of us defines health. (For more information or to register, go to www.aspenhealthforum.org...
Denmark may be a country of just 5.5 million people - about as big as a medium-sized city in China - but a fitting host of the climate change summit. Denmark has thrived while emphasizing clean energy and cutting carbon emissions - between 1980 and 2004, the country's GDP rose 56% while CO2 emissions dropped 35% - and thanks to smart policies and investment, more than a quarter of Denmark's electricity now comes from renewable sources. Danish companies also punch well above their weight in the growing wind turbine industry. To drum up global support for the summit, Hedegaard can easily...
...greener President, but the sheer number of legislative priorities sitting on his desk could make cap and trade impossible to achieve this year. That doesn't mean Copenhagen will come and go without a deal, but, under the pressure to get something on paper, it's possible the summit will produce a watered down agreement insufficient to the scale of the challenge posed by climate change. "It's not just the question of having a deal, but an ambitious deal," says Hedegaard. "We need to come out with what is needed, and not just the least common denominator." But that...