Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Latorre traveled to Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago on 6 April for a meeting with the foreign relations ministers of Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations and Haiti, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The meeting is in preparation of the summit of chiefs of state of the Americas to be held in Chile later this month. Reportedly, the ministers will discuss trade, investment, strengthening of democracy. On the Dominican agenda to discuss with Albright is the repatriation of criminals from the U.S., textile parity, and drug trafficking. Latorre traveled to Trinidad with Bernardo Vega, Dominican ambassador to the United States. On 7 April, Latorre will travel to Cuba for the opening of the Dominican consulate in Havana.
