The Scouting Report: Previewing the Summit of the Americas

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.