John Negroponte, Latin America’s Real “Mr. Danger,” Arises in a New Avatar

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John Negroponte, Latin America’s Real “Mr. Danger,” Arises in a New Avatar

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* U.S. policy on Venezuela likely to harden after Negroponte’s confirmed
* Chairman Biden to meet early test whether the Senate Foreign Relations committee again rolls over on Negroponte’s shocking record while ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s
* Recent neglect of Latin America due to Washington’s distraction over the Iraq war gave the region elbow room to pluralize its relations with the rest of the world and achieve new agreements and economic ties with non-traditional partners
* In Honduras, Negroponte was more a conspirator than a benign diplomat
* As second in command at the Department of State, Negroponte will be the de facto supreme arbiter of Latin American policy directives under Rice, who is known for her inattention to the region

President Bush’s nomination of current director of National Intelligence John Negroponte for the position of deputy secretary of state brings bad news for Latin America. If proven, the allegations of Negroponte’s sordid involvement in the Central American “dirty wars” of the 1980s should fundamentally disqualify him for any job in public service; at the very least, his nomination requires a serious inquiry into the deep stains on his record. There is compelling evidence that Negroponte routinely covers up his complicity in a variety of questionable entanglements, including being aware of, if not helping to guide and facilitate funding for, a Honduran military death squad in 1983 while serving as U.S. ambassador in Tegucigalpa. With a newly elected U.S. Congress that has been given a mandate to fix the country’s profoundly troubled foreign policy, now is the time for this country’s policymakers, particularly the new Democratic majority, to call into question yet another of Bush’s egregious foreign policy errors-in-the-making.

http://www.coha.org/2007/01/11/john-negroponte-latin-america%e2%80%99s-real-%e2%80%9cmr-danger%e2%80%9d-arises-in-a-new-avatar/

[Vexatious Ape]

1. I was surprised to hear that our terrorist mastermind John

Negroponte was leaving his post at National Intelligence. I thought he was perfect for the job for the bastard, given the old adage: "It takes one to know one."

[Briar]

2. Why is this man not in prison

or at least living in shame and obscurity far from the centre of power.

[Say_What]

3. Many of those recycled Iran-Contra war criminals are once again nested

in DC at the expense of US tax dollars. They should all be in prison.
:argh: