Dave
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VERY white guy gets Mexican posting
No word on whether the ambassador 'espeakees eSpanish'. 
MEXICO CITY — President Barack Obama will nominate Earl Anthony (Tony) Wayne, a high-ranking career diplomat with scant experience in Latin America,
as his new ambassador to Mexico, sources confirmed Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/7578916.html#ixzz...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
No word on whether the ambassador 'espeakees eSpanish'.
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Probably a requirement that he doesn't. It's just more of Obama's kowtowing to Calderón by giving him someone who will say and do nothing but throw a
party or two.
Calderón didn't like that sassy Pascual guy so he ran him off.
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Since when is Argentina is not Latin America?
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
No word on whether the ambassador 'espeakees eSpanish'.
MEXICO CITY — President Barack Obama will nominate Earl Anthony (Tony) Wayne, a high-ranking career diplomat with scant experience in Latin America,
as his new ambassador to Mexico, sources confirmed Tuesday. |
Wayne has been the deputy U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan since May 2010 and was previously the U.S. ambassador to Argentina. The last U.S. ambassador
to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, resigned in March after leaked diplomatic cables showed he had criticized Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s antinarcotics
strategy.
Link: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20110524u...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
No word on whether the ambassador 'espeakees eSpanish'.
MEXICO CITY — President Barack Obama will nominate Earl Anthony (Tony) Wayne, a high-ranking career diplomat with scant experience in Latin America,
as his new ambassador to Mexico, sources confirmed Tuesday. |
Wayne has been the deputy U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan since May 2010 and was previously the U.S. ambassador to Argentina. The last U.S. ambassador
to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, resigned in March after leaked diplomatic cables showed he had criticized Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s antinarcotics
strategy.
Link: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20110524u... |
That's encouraging!
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Ken Cooke
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I agree. Plus, Mexico City is closer to the U.S. than Buenos Aires. Although, I would have loved living in Buenos Aires.
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....."Kowtowing to Calderon"????
Take a look at this man's curriculum vitae.......
He has strong ties to the intelligence community.
Looks to me like the President is more concerned about the narco threat emanating from our southern border than an ambassador who will be "partying".
IMHO.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Loretana
He has strong ties to the intelligence community.
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Who's intelligence community? Not Mexico's I would bet. The very last thing Mexico wants is an American meddling in their affairs. That's what
Pascual did when voicing his opinion of things and it cost him his job.
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[Edited on 5-26-2011 by DENNIS]
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There Are Politicians
And then there are accomplished, dedicated diplomats.
One is replacing the other.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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I Second That Thought
| Quote: | Originally posted by Loretana
....."Kowtowing to Calderon"????
Take a look at this man's curriculum vitae.......
He has strong ties to the intelligence community.
Looks to me like the President is more concerned about the narco threat emanating from our southern border than an ambassador who will be "partying".
IMHO. |
After all, anyone that has been posted in Afghanistan ain't no rookie in the diplomatic world, or the "shadow world".
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