Obama lands in Colombia for Americas summit - Yahoo! News Canada: US President Barack Obama arrived in Colombia Friday for summit talks with his peers from across the Americas on the contentious issues of narcotics control and Cuba.
Air Force One landed around 4:40 pm (2140 GMT) in the resort city of Cartagena on the Caribbean. The US leader was to attend a dinner hosted by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ahead of the two-day weekend summit.
Before leaving Washington, Obama made clear in an interview with the Grupo de Diarios America, an association of leading Latin American newspapers, that he rejects the idea of decriminalizing drugs as proposed by some Central American leaders.
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