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EU and Latin American leaders gather in Colombia for high-level summit aimed at strengthening regional cooperation on trade, climate and security.

Gathering is overshadowed by U.S. military strikes targeting alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean that have killed over 60 people since September.

Colombia’s president, who calls strikes “extrajudicial executions,” urged the summit to be “a beacon of light amidst the barbarity.”

BOGOTA, Colombia — Representatives of European, Latin American and Caribbean nations began a two-day summit Sunday in Colombia to try to strengthen ties despite questions on the gathering’s relevance and divisions in the Western Hemisphere over the U.S. milit

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