Thanks to America’s recently announced military agreement with Colombia, Chávez’s ideas got more of a hearing than might have been expected. For, instead of infrastructure plans, commercial or environmental treaties, or even multilateral action against such common problems as violence and poverty, the issue that dominated both press accounts and the speeches at the gathering was the new US-Colombian military agreement, announced less than a month before the summit.
由于美国最近宣布与哥伦比亚达成军事协定，查韦斯的声音得到了比预想更多的关注：因为媒体报道和峰会演讲中的主导性话题不是基础设施规划，商业或环境条约，甚至也不是应对暴力和贫困等共同问题的多边行动，而是在峰会前不到一个月时宣布的美国&#45;&#45;哥伦比亚新军事协定。