Colombia y la Cumbre, según CNN

Colombia exerts diplomacy ahead of summit

By Mariano Castillo, CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Colombia is hosting the Summit of the Americas in April
• There were tensions over whether Cuba would participate
• President Santos visited Cuba but did not offer an invitation
• Cuba calls its exclusion unacceptable

(CNN) -- Preparing a get-together where not all the guests get along is tricky, whether at a dinner party, or, as Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is experiencing, at a hemispheric summit.

Santos, the host of the Summit of the Americas in April, decided not to invite Cuba, following American objections that only democratic governments should be represented.

The Colombian president traveled to Cuba this week to speak directly with President Raul Castro about the summit, which will be held in Cartagena, Colombia.

"We analyzed the details of the topic of Cuba's participation at the summit," Santos said in Havana Wednesday. "Like we have said from the beginning, it is an issue that requires consensus; consensus that unfortunately, we have not been able to find."

The decision may spare U.S. President Barack Obama from an awkward or uneasy situation with Castro, against whose country the United States maintains an embargo.

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