(30 Jun 2005)
1. Various of demonstrations marching to the hotel where the summit takes place
2. Various of demonstrators outside the hotel where the summit takes place
3. Various of authorities and demonstrators outside the hotel where the summit takes place
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Carlos Reyes, Coordinator of the Popular Bloc:
"The main purpose of all these people (Referring to the presidents that attend to the summit) is supporting all the politics that sell our countries, give all our wealth to international companies and make our nation even poorer, so that international companies can take advantage of it and exploit our people and countries the way the want."
5. Various of authorities searching
6. Various of authorities heading gang members to a vehicle
7. Exterior hotel
8. Mid shot of flags holding outside the hotel
9. Mid shot of soldier standing outside the hotel
10. Mid shot of authorities securing the site before the presidents come to the summit
11. Mid shot of official talking on the radio
12. Mid shot of vehicles with presidents heading to the hotel
13. Various of president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe entering the hotel
14. Mid shot of president of Mexico Vicente Fox greeting people in the hotel
15. Mid shot of president of Nicaragua Enrique Bolanos coming to the hotel
16. Mid shot of president of Guatemala Oscar Berger
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Ricardo Maduro, President of Honduras:
"We will be discussing the drug trafficking issue with our friend president Alvaro Uribe who has been fighting really hard. Our drug trafficking problem has a lot to do with the problem of Colombia, that is the reason why we have face it together and that is the reason why we call on the United States to bring a delegate to attend tomorrow's summit because the drug problem has a lot to with them as well."
18. Wide shot of presidents talking at a meeting
19. Mid shot of president Alvaro Uribe and president Oscar Berger talking at the meeting
20. Mid shot of president Uribe talking to president Antonio Saca of El Salvador
21. Wide of presidents talking at the meeting
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Alvaro Uribe Velez, President of Colombia:
"We have a lot in common with the nation of El Salvador, I was telling them the experience of CAFTA (Referring to the Central American Free Trade Agreement). Right now we are negotiating the Free Trade Agreement with the Andean community and the United States."
23. Demonstrators marching to the hotel where the summit is taking place
STORYLINE
Colombian, Mexico and Central American leaders began a two-day summit Wednesday aimed at tackling the region's migration, drug trafficking and economic problems.
The leaders were also looking to expand regional integration agreements that have opened borders from Nicaragua to Guatemala and united economies from Panama to Mexico.
Before starting the summit in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, Mexican President Vicente Fox and his Honduran counterpart, Ricardo Maduro, inaugurated a new highway connecting Guatemala and Honduras, praising the project as an example of how the region must improve infrastructure and work together to compete globally against economic powerhouses like China.
Fox has long promoted the so-called Plan Puebla-Panama, designed to bring together economies from southern Mexico to Panama. While factories and industry are common in the cities of northern Mexico, the southern part of the country has struggled to develop under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Maduro echoed that sentiment at the meeting's inauguration, saying: "We are stronger together than apart."
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