Summit sets stage for first-ever Obama-Castro working meeting

Cuba will be making its first appearance at April’s Summit of the Americas in Panama, raising the likelihood of a first-ever U.S.-Cuba working meeting and only the third time since the 1960s that an American president has met with a Cuban dictator.

Latin American officials said that Raul Castro is expected to attend the April 10-11 summit, the seventh held. His attendance follows Obama’s decision to warm relations with Cuba and after some Latin nations demanded that Cuba be let in to the regional club.