News Analysis: Pressure mounts for U.S. to steer OAS summit
News Analysis: Pressure mounts for U.S. to steer OAS summit
By Xinhua writers Xia Lin, Mao Pengfei (Xinhua) 12:48, March 27, 2015
MEXICO CITY, March 26 -- New hurdles loomed large this week, as the United States stepped up efforts to guarantee that its poor ties with Latin American countries get fine-tuned at an upcoming summit of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Panama.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was even mulling boycotting the April 10-11 summit over Washington's "lack of respect" for the region, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Wednesday, though a day later he confirmed that the head of state would attend.
A U.S. government budget of 1.9 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 allegedly for the promotion of causes like freedom of the press in Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua was just a case in point, said Patino, insisting that Uncle Sam stop making such "ridiculous proposals" if it wanted to have a "friendly" summit of the Americas.
In the past three months, the U.S. has been devoted to normalizing its long-ruptured relations with Cuba and ending its decades of absence at the summit, but so far to no avail.
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