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Right-Wing Ideologue w/Tainted History to Head State Dept.Office on Latin Amer. |
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by Interview by Melinda Tuhus.
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18 Jan 2002
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Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Bill Goodfellow, executive director of the Center for International Policy. He discusses why Bush appointed Reich, his lack of support in Congress and some of the important regional issues Reich will be responsible for in his State Department post . |
Bush Appoints Right-Wing Ideologue with Tainted History to Head State Dept. Office on Latin America
Interview by Melinda Tuhus.
Last week, President Bush made a recess appointment of Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Bush had first announced Reich's appointment last March, but ran into intense opposition among Senate Democrats. Among the reasons they were opposed was Reich's tenure in the early 1980's as head of the Reagan administration's Office of Public Diplomacy, where he worked directly with Oliver North producing propaganda to influence U.S. public opinion in support of the Contra war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Three years later, his office was closed down by Congress as an illegal operation.
Reich, a Cuban-American with many ties to Anti-Castro groups in Miami, later served as ambassador to Venezuela, where he wrote letters in support of a visa application for Orlando Bosch. Bosch is a convicted terrorist who was responsible for the bombing of a Cuban airliner in which 73 civilians were killed.
Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Bill Goodfellow, executive director of the Center for International Policy. He discusses why Bush appointed Reich, his lack of support in Congress and some of the important regional issues Reich will be responsible for in his State Department post(A RealAudioVersion of this interview may be found At http://www.btlonline.org).
Contact the Center for International Policy calling (202) 232-3317 or visit their Web site at www.ciponline.org
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