{"id":13143,"date":"2015-04-13T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=13143"},"modified":"2015-04-13T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:28:11","slug":"talks-with-cuba-earn-u-s-raves-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/talks-with-cuba-earn-u-s-raves-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks With Cuba Earn U.S. Raves in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Obama\u2019s talk with President Ra\u00fal Castro of Cuba drew praise from Latin American leaders and an editorial in El Universal with the headline \u201cA New Era in the Americas.\u201d<\/span> Credit<\/span> Stephen Crowley\/The New York Times <\/span><\/p>\n

And the new star in Latin America is … the United States?<\/p>\n

The reviews are in, and while the United States still faces plenty of tricky relations in a diverse region of 35 states, President Obama<\/a> walked away with more salutes than swipes from a regional Summit of the Americas where the United States usually takes a drubbing.<\/p>\n

The question now is whether Mr. Obama and his successors can capitalize on the new credibility Washington has earned, primarily through his reconciliation with Havana.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama sat down for an hourlong meeting with President Ra\u00fal Castro<\/a> of Cuba<\/a>, which the United States allowed to attend the summit for the first time since the meetings began in 1994. It was the first meeting between leaders of the Cold War-era foes.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama also announced that Brazil\u2019s president, Dilma Rousseff, will be accorded a state visit to Washington in June, after she canceled one in 2013 over American tapping of her communications.<\/p>\n