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At the time, a prestigious figure such Last Database as Enrique Iglesias presided over the IDB and the former president of Colombia, César Gaviria, arrived at the OAS Secretariat with an institutional modernization agenda. But this state of suggestive coincidence between the United States and Latin America was not going to last for long. Different international Last Database realities (such as the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the beginning of the «war on terrorism», the progressive rise of China, the beginning of a secular stagnation of the Last Database economies of the West and the increase in US protectionism) and (such as the growing social and economic costs of the reforms of the 1990s and the coming to power.
Of different types of progressive governments) were Last Database generating conditions that made the FTAA unfeasible in 2005. In 2022, 28 years after the first continental meeting, the United States holds the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. It is Last Database still a mystery why the government of Donald Trump requested, at the VIII Summit of 2018 held in Lima and which the US president did not attend, to host the following meeting. The mixture of Last Database disdain, mistreatment and contempt that his administration showed towards Latin. America can only lead to one conjecture: had he been re-elected president, this conclave would have been an exercise to discipline.