Summit of Americas – No Bridge built

... meeting between the Cuban leader Raul Castro and US PresidentBarack Obama. The summit in Panama again highlighted the deepening rift between the two Americas. This is now the second meeting at this level to end without a final document. This time the USA and Canada blocked the adoption of the final text of a declaration agreed by the other states in the region after four months of preparatory work. The differences proved insuperable on the following points: health as an inalienable human right, the ...