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...four-year term. Like Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Correa espouses "21st century socialism," which has put him on a confrontational course with Washington over the past few years. But even more so than Chávez, who publicly warmed to U.S. President Barack Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, Correa has been effusive about the new government in Washington. Obama is a "sincere, open, cordial person who creates great expectancy," Correa gushed after the Trinidad summit. Now it is a matter of seeing how well Correa's pragmatic socialism meshes with the policies...
...there Medvedev has increased government military spending this year by nearly 26% to about $37 billion, and given military producers of strategic weapons like missile systems and aircraft an extra $1.9 billion in 2009. In late March, just days before flying to the G-20 summit in London, the President donned a military pilot's helmet and uniform at an air base near Moscow for a ride in the back of a Sukhoi-34 fighter bomber, one of Russia's most sophisticated and deadly pieces of hardware. Afterwards he told reporters that it was time to modernize the country...
...said, "¿Cómo estás?"' BARACK OBAMA, when asked what he said to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, an outspoken critic of the U.S., at the Summit of the Americas...
Change is in the air this spring, or at least it will be soon, as President Obama pursues “a new beginning with Cuba.†In remarks made at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, Obama indicated his willingness to engage with the Cuban government in an effort to ameliorate U.S.-Cuba relations, which have remained chilly for half a century. And, prior to the summit, Obama broke with traditional policy by lifting restrictions placed on Cuban-Americans’ ability to travel to Cuba and send money to friends and relatives...
...Since being expelled in 1962 after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba has been excluded from the Organization of American States, the group of 34 nations that meets at the Summit of the Americas every five years. Obama’s conciliatory words at this very summit will ultimately ring hollow unless the U.S. ends its opposition to Cuba’s membership in the OAS. If America is truly committed to redefining its relationship with Cuba and its allies such as Venezuela and Nicaragua, then it needs to give Cuba a seat at the table...