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For folks who follow U.S. policy toward the Americas, this week we learned of a White House personnel change related and the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Dan Restrepo was leaving and would be replaced by Mr. Ricardo Zuñiga, a career foreign service officer.
The National Security Council staff includes individuals who cover different parts of the [...]
Prostitutegate aside, there were other, more pressing things that happened at the Summit of the Americas two weeks ago. We can tinker with a lot of things. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, for example, sideswipe of U.S.-Cuba policy: “The isolation, the embargo, the indifference, and looking the other way, have shown their ineffectiveness” and the policy [...]
The Obama Administration had an opportunity to talk trade and economic growth during the President’s most recent trip to Latin America. Our ever salacious media delivered a suitable distraction: prostitutes. It is what we did not see that matters, right?
The President’s national security staff prepared a series of well-orchestrated stops that reinforced the administration’s [...]
Two European companies, Hispasat, and it appears another one with strong U.S. ties, Intelsat, are reportedly going to facilitate satellite broadcasts in Latin America for Iran, a state sponsor of terror.
According to an article in Broadband TV News, “Iran has secured capacity on three satellites for distribution of its Spanish language [...]
With a very few notable exceptions, most DC-based Western Hemisphere policy experts, for years, have downplayed Iran’s influence in the Americas. This would include both Democratic and Republican policymakers and staff.
Granted, after 09/11/01 there was a great deal of anecdotal information in the Latin American media about Iranian activities throughout the region. It has [...]
In a (Cinco de Mayo) e-mail to State Department personnel, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, resigned yesterday:
I wanted to advise you that I announced at the WHA Directors meeting this morning my intention to return to my duties as Professor of Government at Georgetown. As you may [...]
One fugitive remains at large, but it looks as if one chapter of the Great Sony Playstation Caper has come to a close. Sentenced to one-year probation and six months home confinement, Miami-Dade businessman Khaled T. Safadi told the judge that he was “not a terrorist”.
According to the Miami Herald, “Safadi’s Doral company, [...]
