While New York was busy gearing up for
the 70th annual U.N. General Assembly, a once-proud but now worn-out
international summit was already well underway south of the border. On Sunday,
Sept. 18, Venezuela wrapped up the 17th meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, a
loose international club formed in 1961 as a middle path through the Cold War
polarization of the era. Originally founded by India, Indonesia, Egypt, Ghana
and the former Yugoslavia, the group’s members advocated peaceful coexistence
and refused to align with either the United States or the Soviet Union. More…
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