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Latin America’s Munich No-Show Was a Big Mistake
Does anyone else here speak Spanish?
Photographer: Johannes Simon/Getty Images EuropeThe crammed hallways of the Munich Security Conference thrummed this year with the usual suspects. And that highlights a problem for the nations of the Western Hemisphere.
What began primarily as a transatlantic fest, with heads of state, defense ministers, national security advisors, and other panjandrums from Europe ’ s capitals and Washington joining business leaders and academics to advance security, has morphed into something both more global and more wide-ranging in subject matter.