Latin America rebels against U.S. over Cuba

Latin America's militant opposition to the decades-old U.S. isolation of communist Cuba put more pressure on President Barack Obama at the Americas Summit on Sunday and threatened to sink a final declaration.

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For the first time, conservative U.S-allied nations like Colombia are throwing their weight behind the traditional demand of leftist governments that Cuba be in the next meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS). Diplomats said the dispute could block the final declaration planned for Sunday at the closing of the meeting, and originally intended as a hemispheric show of unity. "The isolation, the embargo, the indifference, looking the other way, have been ineffective," summit host and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said of the Cuba issue.

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"All the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean support Cuba and Argentina, yet two countries refuse to discuss it," Bolivian President Eva Morales said, also referring to widespread support for Argentina's claims to sovereignty over the British-ruled Falklands islands.

"How is it possible that Cuba is not present in the Summit of the Americas?" Morales asked. "What sort of integration are we talking about if we are excluding Cuba?"

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