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After San Antonio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Bruce Michael Bagley
Bruce Michael Bagley*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), University of Miami, North-South Center Drug Trafficking Task Force.
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In an Effort to extend and accelerate regional cooperation and coordination in the “War on Drugs” in the Western Hemisphere, President George Bush hosted a widelypublicized, regional, anti-drug presidential summit in San Antonio (Texas) on 26-27 February 1992. This cumbre was conceived as an expanded sequel to the first “Andean” drug summit held in Cartagena (Colombia) on 15 February 1990. In addition to the original four-country participants in Cartagena I — the United States, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia — Ecuador, Venezuela, and Mexico attended Cartagena II as well.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 34 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Drug Trafficking Research Update , Fall 1992 , pp. 1 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1992

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Notes

1. This summit was originally scheduled to be held in Miami (Florida) but was moved, at the request of the Bolivian and Mexican delegations, to San Antonio (Texas) in late January 1992 because of their fears of disruptive demonstrations by anti-Castro Cubans in that city.

2. US President Bush and Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora had represented their respective countries at Cartagena I and did so again at Cartagena II. Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori had succeeded President Alán García in July 1989 and thus had not attended Cartagena I. Neither Ecuador's Rodrigo Borja nor México's Carlos Salinas de Gortari had been invited to the first conclave but did represent their nations at San Antonio. Venezuela's Carlos Andrés Perez did not attend Cartagena I either, but he did receive an invitation to Cartagena II. After an attempted military coup nearly toppled his government early in February 1992, however, he decided not to attend personally but, rather, to send Foreign Minister Armando Duran to represent Venezuela.

3. In early January 1992, US Under-Secretary of State Robert Gelbart visited the six Latin American participants in Cartagena II and distributed US proposals for the summit's agenda, and a meeting to discuss the US proposals was held in Quito (Ecuador) the first week in February.