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“Trinidadians always buy into this idea that hosting something will get us lots of free press. Thing is: no-one really cares all that much who hosts the summit. Perhaps you get a few extra googles…but the idea that these things pay for themselves is delusional”: Club Soda and Salt is not convinced that the twin island nation's hosting of the Fifth Summit of the Americas was a sound idea.
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