(CNN) -- President Barack Obama is putting an international spin on his domestic economic agenda with planned trade talks at a weekend summit in Colombia, which is bringing together most of the hemisphere's leaders.But separate security incidents -- one involving bomb blasts and the other the Secret Service -- overshadowed the start of the sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena.
Obama plans to focus on economy, trade, energy and regional security, and is also expected to highlight democratic and social reforms with 33 of the region's 35 leaders.
The president arrived in the Colombian coastal resort city Friday, a visit that will mark the most time a U.S. president has spent in that country, where security concerns had limited previous presidential trips. Read More
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