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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Beauty Pageants in Argentina, Diplomatic Conferences in Argentina, Festivals in Argentina, 4th Summit of the Americas, Immigrant's Festival, National Day of the Sun, National Sea Festival, Quilmes Rock, Fiesta Nacional de La Vendimia, Encuentro Y Fiesta Nacional de Colectividades, Miss Latin America 1991, La Rural, National Beer Festival, Leyendas, Argentina Bicentennial, International Poetry Festival of Rosario, Sea Star Awards, Encuentro Internacional de Escultura En Madera-Piedra-Hierro de Rosario, Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad. Excerpt: The 4th Summit of the Americas was held at Mar del Plata, about 400 km (250 miles) southeast of Buenos Aires in Argentina, on November 4-5, 2005. This summit gathered together the leaders of all the countries of the American continent, except Cuba. Major security arrangements and massive popular protests against the presence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush, on Latin American soil, took place in the days leading up to the summit. The "Summit of the Americas" is the name for a continuing series of summits bringing together the leaders of North America and South America. The function of these summits is to foster discussion of a variety of issues affecting the western hemisphere. These high-level summit meetings have been organized by a number of multilateral bodies under the aegis of the Organization of American States. In the early 1990s, what were formerly ad hoc summits came to be institutionalized into a regular "Summits of the Americas" conference program. The theme of the Fourth Summits of the Americas was "Creating Jobs to Fight Poverty and Strengthen Democratic Governance". The Declaration and Plan of Action of Mar del Plata, signed by the attending heads of state and ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3073607