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CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Barack Obama’s weekend trip to an international summit meeting here, which was never expected to make much news back home, is now grabbing plenty of headlines — for all the wrong reasons.
A scandal that broke into public view Friday with reports that about a dozen Secret Service agents and officers had been sent home for alleged involvement with local prostitutes spread to the U.S. military Saturday night. Officials announced that five military service members were ordered confined to quarters in what the White House said was the same incident at a hotel here earlier this week.
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The sex-tinged controversy loomed over the first working day of the 33-country Summit of the Americas, a semi-regular gathering of heads of state from across the western hemisphere launched during the Clinton administration.
White House officials were tight-lipped about the pre-trip episode and the ongoing investigations into what happened. They insisted it wasn’t interfering with Obama’s diplomacy but conceded that they were losing some control of the media narrative.
Asked whether the flap had distracted the president from his work, White House press secretary Jay Carney said, “It has not. I think it’s been much more of a distraction for the press. … Our focus here and the president’s focus continues to be on the meetings he’s having.”
While the president himself may have escaped the media frenzy over allegations of misconduct by his security detail, what he did encounter early Saturday wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.
At Obama’s first public event here linked to the summit, two of the most prominent leaders at the meeting pounced on him over U.S. economic policies that make it harder for Latin American companies to compete with U.S. firms. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos charged that U.S. monetary policies, implemented to jump-start the economy, have raised the prices of their goods sold to the U.S.
“Expansionary monetary policies in and of themselves, in isolation, bring a protectionist element,” Rousseff said during a CEO summit running parallel to the leaders’ meeting. “Obviously, we have to take measures to defend ourselves. … A country will have to realize that it cannot allow its manufacturing base or industries to be cannibalized.”
While Rousseff said Europe bears a large share of the blame, Santos chimed in moments later, reminding the audience that the U.S. is at fault, too.
“I share … the concern the Latin American countries have with the expansionist policies of the developed countries, including the U.S.,” Santos said. “In that way, they are exporting their crisis to us.”
Both leaders spoke as they were seated on a stage just a few feet from Obama during a three-way discussion moderated by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75141.html#ixzz1s7GwkDiI
A scandal that broke into public view Friday with reports that about a dozen Secret Service agents and officers had been sent home for alleged involvement with local prostitutes spread to the U.S. military Saturday night. Officials announced that five military service members were ordered confined to quarters in what the White House said was the same incident at a hotel here earlier this week.
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Latest on Politico
The sex-tinged controversy loomed over the first working day of the 33-country Summit of the Americas, a semi-regular gathering of heads of state from across the western hemisphere launched during the Clinton administration.
White House officials were tight-lipped about the pre-trip episode and the ongoing investigations into what happened. They insisted it wasn’t interfering with Obama’s diplomacy but conceded that they were losing some control of the media narrative.
Asked whether the flap had distracted the president from his work, White House press secretary Jay Carney said, “It has not. I think it’s been much more of a distraction for the press. … Our focus here and the president’s focus continues to be on the meetings he’s having.”
While the president himself may have escaped the media frenzy over allegations of misconduct by his security detail, what he did encounter early Saturday wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.
At Obama’s first public event here linked to the summit, two of the most prominent leaders at the meeting pounced on him over U.S. economic policies that make it harder for Latin American companies to compete with U.S. firms. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos charged that U.S. monetary policies, implemented to jump-start the economy, have raised the prices of their goods sold to the U.S.
“Expansionary monetary policies in and of themselves, in isolation, bring a protectionist element,” Rousseff said during a CEO summit running parallel to the leaders’ meeting. “Obviously, we have to take measures to defend ourselves. … A country will have to realize that it cannot allow its manufacturing base or industries to be cannibalized.”
While Rousseff said Europe bears a large share of the blame, Santos chimed in moments later, reminding the audience that the U.S. is at fault, too.
“I share … the concern the Latin American countries have with the expansionist policies of the developed countries, including the U.S.,” Santos said. “In that way, they are exporting their crisis to us.”
Both leaders spoke as they were seated on a stage just a few feet from Obama during a three-way discussion moderated by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75141.html#ixzz1s7GwkDiI
I'm not sure I'm reading it right either. What I got is that the leaders of these Latin American countries are upset that Obama's policies make it tougher for them to compete with US firms. Now, that isn't a good thing for the Latin American Countries, but with the number of jobs in the US being lost to companies leaving and doing business elsewhere, I would think this is a good thing for the US? Especially where manufacturing is concerned as there were such huge job losses in that area.So if I am reading this correctly, this is good for the US, but not so great for Latin America.
He never takes care of the US , at least what the people wants, he rides rough shod over everything, including the constitution . The article is saying that the other leaders are not happy with the way the US and developed nations, I guess they mean China, Russia etc are expanding all the regulations and policies that affect them aswell ..Unless I did misunderstand .
It's a bad thing that he is trying to take care of the US first? I thought in earlier posts on similar topics you had lambasted him for being to generous with Latin America. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here?
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