Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra kicked off the Summit of the Americas’ first full session asking the Western Hemisphere leaders to approve 57 action points he said would constitute a base for preventing corruption. “The hard part will come when leaders return home,” said Shannon O’Neil, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Trump has made it clear the United States will not stand idly by while Venezuela crumbles,” he told regional leaders Saturday. The Summit of the Americas has served more than once as a venue to discuss corruption in the Americas. Leaders including Vizcarra, however, lamented that two decades later corruption remains just as entrenched if not more so in many public institutions throughout the region.

Source: Washington Post April 14, 2018 04:07 UTC