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President Santos makes US visit

by Tom Heyden April 5, 2011

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President Juan Manuel Santos has travelled to the U.S., where he will deliver a lecture at Brown University, Rhode Island, entitled “Why people should give more than a damn about Latin America,” announces a government press release.

Santos, who himself was schooled at three different U.S. colleges, including Harvard, is expected to ask Barack Obama’s government to cease perceiving Colombia as a failed state and instead welcome the nation as an important strategic partner, Caracol reports.

The lecture forms part of the Ibero-American Forum taking place at the Ivy League school, which will provide a platform for “intellectual discussion, attended by entrepreneurs, great leaders of opinion [and] the great thinkers of the entire region,” said a government spokesperson.

Santos will follow this talk by chairing a U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday April 6, in which the reconstruction of Haiti following January 2010’s catastrophic earthquake will top the agenda.

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