Exhaustion at the Latin America summit

"Monstrous security measures, barricaded streets, the usual family photo, great words and expectations at the beginning - and in the end general exhaustion and the question: what were we doing here?" This is how Jindřich Šídlo describes the EU-Latin America Summit in the Peruvian capital of Lima. The meeting was overshadowed by the prolonged extreme leftist speeches delivered by the leaders of Venezuela and Bolivia, Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales. The lengthy final declaration, which had already been prepared to the last detail in advance, was simply signed, Šídlo writes: !The summit concluded with a seemingly interminable speech by the Peruvian host. Afterwards, Alan García Pérez had no time for the final press conference. The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, was left waiting for him in vain."

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