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Latin American leaders will meet with Barack Obama on Friday in a summit of the Americas that will no doubt signify the shift in the balance of powers between the United States and Latin America, which has been taking place over the last decade. In January, another historic summit took place when four of these Presidents, Hugo Chavez, Brazil's Lula, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa of Equador addressed the World Social Forum in Brazil expressing their solidarity with the very movements who opposed the Summit of Americas in Quebec City in 2001.