Envoy Puts Latin Post, and Stormy Past, Behind Him

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Otto J. Reich, President Bush's special envoy to Latin America, resigned on Wednesday, taking with him a lifetime of experience fighting Fidel Castro and other opponents of American foreign policy.
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In 2001, President Bush nominated Mr. Reich to become assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, the top State Department post for Latin America. Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, the president's brother, and the state's anti-Castro Cubans supported the nomination.

But the Senate would not confirm him; some Democrats called him an ideologue. After a bitter fight, the president appointed him temporarily when Congress recessed. After that yearlong term expired, he took the special envoy post, which did not require Senate approval, in January 2003.
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In 1987, the comptroller general of the United States reported that Mr. Reich's office had "engaged in prohibited, covert activities" of domestic propaganda "designed to influence the media and the public to support the administration's Latin American policies.'' Those acts violated restrictions on the use of public funds for propaganda without Congress's consent, the report said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/international/americas/17reic.html?th


<edit2:> This is the POS who announced that the US was recognizing the new gov't, immediately after the (abortive) coup attempt in Venezuela several years ago.

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1. All the Shrub P.O.S. Rats Are Burrowing Underground Pending the Election

PERLE's supposed reason for resigning was that he not be a negative for Shrub during the campaign. IF, Zeus forbid, Shrub steals or wins, the full complement of rats will be back and we will be totally screwed.

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2. It's credible they're all hiding during the electoral season.