Article: Chummy Obama, Chavez mark 'spirit of cooperation' at summit.(national)(Conference notes)

Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer

With frank exchanges and the appearance of a new maturity, regional leaders including a travel-weary but enthusiastic President Obama breathed new life into the Summit of the Americas - a meeting that at least one member thought had outlived its usefulness before this weekend.

The North and South American leaders who came together in Trinidad and Tobago failed to reach unanimity on a final declaration issued at the summit's close Sunday. But if anything, the decision instead to end proceedings with only a C[pounds sterling]consensusC[yen] suggested - not acrimony - but a new openness to robust dialogue in regional ...

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