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A mural of Morales, Chavez and Castro (Photo: alittlefishy)

EU to tussle with Latin America's 'Pink Tide' at Lima summit

Tussles over biofuels, trade and even capitalism itself are likely to take centre stage in Lima, Peru on Friday, as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and some 60 heads of state from the EU and Latin America and the Carribean (LAC) descend on the Peruvian capital for the fifth EU-LAC summit.

Under the protection of some 85,000 soldiers and police who have set up the usual array of roadblocks, traffic detours and zones restricted to local citizens, the leaders are to rattl...

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A mural of Morales, Chavez and Castro (Photo: alittlefishy)

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