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08
2009

12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT

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The Scouting Report: Previewing the Summit of the Americas

  • Wednesday, April 8, 2009

    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

The Brookings Institution
Online

1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC

The new Obama Administration can send signals for a new beginning with many of our neighbors to the south at the upcoming Summit of the Americas April 17-19 in Trinidad and Tobago.

Challenges abound for the new President and his emissaries to Cuba, Colombia, Bolivia, Haiti and Venezuela. Mauricio Cárdenas, director of the Latin America Initiative at Brookings, took your questions on U.S. policy in the region during a web chat moderated by Politico Senior Editor Fred Barbash, Wednesday, April 8 at 12:30 PM.
 

Agenda

  • April 8

    • Expert

      Mauricio Cárdenas
      Mauricio Cárdenas Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy - Colombia University, Former Minister of Finance and Public Credit - Republic of Colombia, Former Brookings Expert

    • Moderator

      FB
      Fred Barbash Senior Editor
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