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** FILE ** Firefighters inspect a damaged bus at the scene of a bomb attack that targeted a former Colombian interior minister in Bogota, Colombia, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The blast killed two people and injured at least 19 others. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta walks past an honor guard upon his arrival at the military airport in Bogota, Colombia, on Monday, April 23, 2012, on the first stop on his weeklong tour of Latin America. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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It has been harder for President Obama to get his message across to a public whose attention has been diverted by recent scandals involving the behavior of some Secret Service agents and members of the military in Colombia as well as stories of federal bureacrats carousing in Las Vegas at public expense. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Secret Service agents walk April 14, 2012, around the Convention Center in Cartagena, Colombia, prior to the opening ceremony of the 6th Summit of the Americas. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos during the 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, Sunday, April 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Obama waves upon his arrival for the official group photo at the sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, on Sunday, April 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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President Obama (right) shakes hands with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos during a dinner at the sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, on Saturday, April 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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President Barack Obama sits in front of a large video screen displaying an image of a U.S. national flag at the CEO Summit of the Americas, in Cartagena, Colombia, Saturday April 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Obama waves upon arrival in Cartagena, Colombia, on Friday, April 13, 2012, to attend the sixth Summit of the Americas. At right is Michael McKinley, U.S. ambassador to Colombia. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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President Obama speaks April 13, 2012, at the Port of Tampa in Tampa, Fla., about trade with Latin America before heading to Colombia for the Summit of the Americas. (Associated Press)
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The diplomatic skills of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (left) were tested when the U.S. opposed Cuba's participation in this weekend's summit of Western Hemisphere leaders. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A police officer unpacks marijuana in Cali, Colombia, on June 3, 2009. The Spanish village of Rasquera, Spain, is voting in a regional referendum to decide if to allow the cultivation of marijuana as a source of revenue to pay off municipal debt, with a population of some 960 people in the northeastern Catalonia region. (Associated Press)
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Former hostages Cesar Augusto Lasso (from left), Jose Forero, Jorge Romero, Carlos Duarte and Wilson Rojas greet each other at police headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, on April 4. The men had spent between 12 and 14 years in jungle prisons. They were captured when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia was at the height of its military strength. (Associated Press)
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Inadequate roads, railways, shipping ports and airports are slowing Colombia's efforts to boost exports and capitalize on the new trade agreement with the United States. Colombia doesn't have enough money to invest in a major overhaul and is looking for help. (Associated Press)
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Relatives of slain hostage Elkin Hernandez, at his family home in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday Nov. 26, 2011. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said that rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, killed four members of the security forces, including Hernandez, a police major kidnapped in 1998. All were found killed execution-style Saturday morning in the southern state of Caqueta after been held between 12 and 13 years. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)
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An international crew of researchers - from left, Alexey Sitev of Russia, Romain Charles of France, Suhrob Kamolov of Russia, Alexander Smoleevskiy of Russia, Diego Urbina of Italy/Colombia and Wang Yue of China - gives a thumbs-up after a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars, in Moscow on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
