Colombia or bust?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:28:27 +0000

In his reflections to reporters on the success of the Summit of the Americas, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe also looked ahead to the next summit, offering Colombia as the host four years from now. The gesture is not new: Colombia's campaign started at the last summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

But now, it appears Colombia might step up the campaign, taking the same approach Uribe says his government takes with diplomacy in general: "We will continue working on this with prudence but with insistence."

Colombia's Uribe to visit Obama in Washington

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:22:57 +0000

Although the White House called off a bilateral meeting that was in the works between Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and President Obama at the Summit of the Americas, Uribe managed to get some face time with Obama nevertheless over lunch on Saturday. And it appears that Obama more than made up for not making the time for a meeting with Uribe this time around: he promised to visit Colombia on his next trip to Latin America.