President Obama will meet with Cuban dictator Raúl Castro later this week at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, the State Department announced on Tuesday. Although no formal meeting is scheduled, the two leaders will meet on the sidelines sometime during the two-day talks. The Hill: “I’m sure that President Obama will be interacting with President Castro at the summit events as leaders gather on the margins of those events,” Rhodes said on a conference call. U.S. officials revealed last week that Obama and Castro would interact at the gathering of leaders from the Western Hemisphere in Panama City, which runs April 10-11. But the format of the encounter had not been clear. The informal meeting will be the first between Obama and Castro since the U.S. president announced in December he would begin normalizing relations with Cuba. Some members of Congress and business leaders applauded the move to re-establish ties with...(Read Full Post)