The next international ‘Summit of the Americas' meetingwill take place in April in the city of Cartagena in Colombia. The delegation from Brazil will be led by President Dilma Rousseff, a fact announced on Thursday of this week by Juan Manuel Santos, her counterpart as President of Columbia. Senor Santos outlined ; “ Yesterday I had a conversation with the President of Brazil who will come to the Summit and participate in a discussion panel with both myself and the U.S. President, Barack Obama”.
The agenda for the panel has not yet been finalised and/or announced in detail. However, it's expected by many that it will include regional co-operation of the continent’s economies (including investing in Brazil) together with an exchange of views on social and environmental matters. For instance, Brazil’s highly successful ‘ Minha Casa Minha Vida ’ social housing scheme is much admired elsewhere in the Americas and other countries are seeking ways to tailor similar programmes to their own domestic needs.
Juan Manuel Santos went on to explain that the summit will be held on the 14th and 15th of the month in the caribbean port of Cartagena, following which Dilma will stay in the country for an extra time.
During this period she will officially open and inaugurate the International Book Fair in Bogota, the capital of Columbia. The Fair will this year celebrate its 25th Anniversary. But not only that, this year the ‘guest of honour’ country at the international literary festival will be Brazil and accordingly over 50 writers and musicians from the Country have been invited to the gathering.
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