CARTAGENA : Embargoes on Agenda
When leaders of Latin America, Spain and Portugal meet today in Cartagena, Colombia, hot topics are expected to include economic embargoes on Cuba and Haiti.
This will be the fourth summit of Ibero-American heads of state. At last year’s meeting, in Brazil, 21 leaders signed a resolution criticizing the U.S. embargo against Cuba’s Communist government.
Last week, foreign ministers of the Organization of American States called for tightening the international embargo against Haiti’s military regime.
The two-day summit this week also is likely to serve as a warm-up session for a hemispheric summit conference scheduled by the Clinton Administration for December in Miami.
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