The historic 7th Summit of the America ended Saturday evening in Panama. The event was considered a milestone due to the presence for the first time in more than five decades of Cuba, with President Raul Castro meeting with his US counterpart Barack Obama and a clear and strengthened majority of Latin American countries rejecting US interventionism in the region, more specifically in the current case of Venezuela. From Latin America, major interventions were made by Raul Castro, Evo Morales (Bolivia); Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Dilma Roussef (Brazil), Cristina Fernandez (Argentina), and Nicolas Maduro (Venezuela). In his intervention, Obama said the rapprochement with Cuba represents a turning point for the entire region, acknowledged "dark chapters" in US relations with Latin America and a "not always congruent" application of human rights policies by Washington. He pledged a new era of cooperation between the United States and the region. teleSUR
