The IV Summit of Americas took place on November 4th and 5th 2005 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (www.summit-americas.org/NextSummit_eng.htm) The internacional meeting had volunteers from differents universities. I had the chance to work for the Argentinian Government giving advice to journalists from all over the world in the Acreditation Center and the International Press Center.
During three months, the volunteers worked in a special publication about the Summit and his more important topics like for example the security.
The city was excited and the most fear was the presence of the President of U.S., George W. Bush, due to two important issues : his pressure in the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTTA) and a possible terrorism attack because of his presence.
In every place of the country, the people said crazy things about the Summit and what could happen, most of them invented and without a serious argument. But any of those things happened and the Summit took place without troubles and in a relative calm.
It was a great opportunity to saw and analize the differents attitudes of some of the Presidents that had participated in this meeting, like the controversial President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, who joined a street protest against Bush and the FTTA with personalities from the culture like writers and sports like the football star Diego Maradona.
By Maria Fernanda González Ullmann
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