The Summit of the Americas: A primer

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

Oscar Wilde

Thanks to The Economist, IKN no longer feels obliged to writing a long preview of next week's Summit of the Americas that happens in Trinidad and Tobago on April 17th to 19th. Here's the link to the Economist article, recommended as a nice'n'concise way to get the issues clear before the bunfest starts (top of agenda will be Cuba, Cuba, Cuba and sadassed Miami residents' rabid reaction to Cuba) and also gives a neat background to the fiasco (The Economist's word, not mine) of the last SotA in Argentina, 2005.

Finally, while checking out the script make sure you note something about the illustration that accompanies. As well as the attention to detail (Lula's missing finger) the Canadian dude is so unknown outside his borders that the cartoonist feels obliged to slap a red&white maple leaf on his tie. Sad, innit?

In one simple phrase...

The face of agendas past or future? YOU BE THE JUDGE!

.....Peter Hakim, economist* and president of Washington's Inter-American Dialogue explains to the world exactly why the Bush regime was so hated by Latin America. The subject is next month's Summit of the Americas (you'll be hearing a lot about this little gathering for sure, and the word association with Cuba will become intensely boring). Hakim dixit:

"He (Obama) shouldn't simply say what the United States is going to do, he should say what he expects Latin America to do."

No further comment necessary.

*aka dumbass in a suit