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  • Judicial Watch: New Abedin Emails Reveal Top Clinton Foundation Executive Doug Band Sought Diplomati

    09/07/2016 6:58:47 PM PDT · by TakebackGOP · 41 replies
    Judicial Watch ^ | 9/1/2016
    "The Abedin emails include a mid-August 2009, email exchange in which Band urges Abedin to follow up on a request from Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy to set up a meeting with then-Ambassador to Panama Barbara Stephenson on behalf of lobbyist Amb. Otto Reich, President Reagan’s ambassador to Venezuela who maintained high-level government positions during the tenure of both President George H.W. Bush and President George Bush. In early September, Ruddy then was contacted by State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta S. Jacobson, at the behest of Band and Abedin, in reference to Ruddy’s...
  • Ambassador Reich to Obama: Be Wary of ‘Evil Men’ Now Running Venezuela

    03/05/2013 11:18:30 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 22 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 06 Mar 2013 12:36 AM | Paul Scicchitano
    Now that Hugo Chávez is out of the picture, former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich warns President Obama to tread carefully in dealing with the “evil, evil men” that are now running the South American nation. “These guys are so tricky and so evil, quite frankly,” Reich, tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview following the announcement of Chávez’ death on Tuesday. “The people in power in Venezuela today are evil.” … Reich added that Fidel Castro and his brother may be calling the shots in Venezuela. …
  • Otto J. Reich: 21st Century Socialism - The attempt to destroy democracy in Latin America.

    04/23/2010 9:58:55 AM PDT · by neverdem · 5 replies · 343+ views
    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | April 23, 2010 | Otto J. Reich
    21st Century SocialismThe attempt to destroy democracy in Latin America.  The Obama administration started out on the wrong foot in world affairs. It used techniques better suited for domestic political campaigns — popularity contests — in its foreign policy. In our own hemisphere, the result was confusion for our allies and our enemies alike. The overriding objective of U.S. policy — in Latin America and elsewhere — should be to advance U.S. national interests, not to curry favor with foreign leaders. If we can be liked while advancing our interests, so much the better. But when we try to befriend...
  • Funeral for a Tyrant

    10/26/2006 11:40:07 AM PDT · by The Bronze Titan · 39 replies · 2,680+ views
    National Review Online ^ | October 26, 2006 | Otto J. Reich
    This time the rumors are real: Castro is dying of stomach cancer. He may have already died, even before the funeral preparations were finished, so the news is not out. Confirmation of the terminal illness comes from the usual sources but in a non-conventional manner. The Cuban government has been summoning to Havana representatives of the major international media to negotiate the best seats, camera angles, and interviews with the despot’s political survivors, and to inform them of the ground rules for coverage of the state funeral. The foreign media are being told that the model for Castro’s funeral is...
  • Novak: Otto Reich exposes sham of attacks on John Bolton

    05/12/2005 6:36:04 AM PDT · by StoneGiant · 13 replies · 974+ views
    Otto Reich exposes sham of attacks on John Bolton By ROBERT D. NOVAK JANICE O’CONNELL, the veteran Democratic staff expert on Western Hemisphere affairs, acted as though she were seeing an apparition at 2:30 p.m. last Friday. She was present with other Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers to question unfavorable witnesses about Under Secretary of State John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations. But outside the Dirksen Office Building’s Room 419 appeared her archenemy: Otto Reich, coming not to bury Bolton, but to praise him. O’Connell is only an aide to Sen. Christopher Dodd, but...
  • Novak: Castro Real Story of Bolton Controversy

    05/12/2005 8:45:11 AM PDT · by wagglebee · 60 replies · 2,157+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 5/12/05 | Carl Limbacher
    The campaign against John R. Bolton’s nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is about far more than his reputedly abrasive personality – behind the smears lies a pro-Castro agenda. The criticism of Bolton by Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd and his aide Janice O’Connell is "based on taking issue with his accusations that Castro is building a biological warfare capability," writes columnist Robert D. Novak. And the effectiveness of O’Connell - the veteran Democratic staff expert on Western Hemisphere affairs – in making life difficult for enemies of Fidel Castro is "legendary,” according to Novak. "She was...
  • John Bolton vs. the Moral Cowards -- The Senate confirmation process needs to be reformed

    04/14/2005 5:47:32 AM PDT · by OESY · 15 replies · 1,413+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 14, 2005 | OTTO REICH
    The [Bolton hearings] unmasked the campaign which has been underway to discredit him and derail his nomination. They also demonstrated once again the need to reform the Senate confirmation process, which has become so politicized that it is not serving its constitutional purpose.... It was stated repeatedly at the hearings that Mr. Bolton and I tried to get an intelligence analyst--referred to as "Mr. Smith"--fired, or tried to block his promotion or to get him transferred. I cannot speak for Mr. Bolton (though having known him since 1981, I can attest to his integrity). But I can speak for myself:...
  • Democratic lunacy, Republican slowness, a little language, &c.

    06/30/2004 3:39:00 PM PDT · by swilhelm73 · 3 replies · 208+ views
    NRO ^ | 6/29/04 | Jay Nordlinger
    A sign of the times: A reader writes, "Jay, I was sitting in a Starbucks in Dupont Circle. [This is Washington, D.C.] At the table next to me were three people who had just seen Fahrenheit 9/11. They spent a half-hour ranting about all the bad things George W. Bush has done: 'Iraq,' 'Patriot Act,' 'lowered taxes on the rich,' and . . . 'ignored the Rwandan genocide'! I leaned in and pointed out that the Rwandan genocide took place in 1994. One called me a 'right-wing crazy.' I happen to have worked for years in Democratic politics, but figured...
  • Key Bush Latin America Aide, Otto Reich, Resigns

    06/16/2004 8:41:02 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 8 replies · 483+ views
    Reuters | June 16, 2004
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Otto Reich, who took a hard line against presidents Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, resigned as a top adviser to President Bush on Latin America, officials said on Wednesday. White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said in a statement that she accepted the resignation of Reich "with regret" and praised his "service to our country and his commitment to a brighter future for the western hemisphere." Reich said last month he planned to quit for "personal and financial reasons" and that he may join Bush's re-election campaign. Rice's statement did not...
  • U.S. urges better share in progress for the poor - Will not do business with a tyrant

    10/29/2003 1:15:52 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 2 replies · 158+ views
    The Miami Herald ^ | October 29, 2003 | JANE BUSSEY jbussey@herald.com
    Leaders urged to give people better odds Taking up the standard for the region's poor, the White House's chief envoy to Latin America said leaders must take steps to allow more people to participate in democracy and economic progress. ''This is a continent where the peasants and laborers work from dawn to dusk and end their lives in misery, and not for the lack of natural resources,'' said Otto J. Reich as he addressed The Herald's 2003 Americas Conference on Tuesday in Coral Gables. ``There is too much false nationalism and a lack of firm commitment to real development. The...
  • US official (Otto Reich) says Castro may have ordered boat hijacking

    08/09/2003 2:06:34 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 9 replies · 259+ views
    yahoo.comnews ^ | August 8, 2003 | AFP
    MIAMI (AFP) - A senior White House official claimed Friday Cuban President Fidel Castro may have ordered a recent boat hijacking in a successful bid to sow discord between the Cuban-American community and the US administration. "Look at the impact on the Cuban (American) community: he's got Cuban groups fighting against each other, he's got the Cuban community criticizing the administration," said Otto Reich, President George W. Bush's chief advisor on Latin America. "This was a million-dollar operation; you cannot buy that kind of discord," Reich told AFP. The administration has come under criticism from prominent Cuban-American leaders for sending...
  • U.S. to bolster Cuba broadcasts, aid to dissidents (to speed "transformation")

    08/08/2003 11:46:52 PM PDT · by FairOpinion · 8 replies · 302+ views
    Sun Sentinel ^ | Aug. 8, 2003 | William E. Gibson
    Washington · Otto Reich, President Bush's chief adviser on Latin America, said on Thursday that the administration will step up efforts to pressure the Fidel Castro regime, aid dissidents and hasten the political transformation of the island. "I know that President Bush is interested in doing more to accelerate the process of change in Cuba, and it's safe to say that in the next few weeks and months you will see some additional steps," Reich said. "It's been very difficult for this president to implement this policy for Cuba and the Western Hemisphere because up to this week he was...
  • Pro-Castro Senators Hold a Bush Nominee Hostage

    06/25/2003 11:19:38 PM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 1 replies · 209+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Thursday, June 26, 2003 | By Wall Street Journal
    Pro-Castro Senators Hold a Bush Nominee HostageBy Wall Street JournalWall Street Journal | June 25, 2003 More than halfway through his term, President Bush still doesn't have a confirmed Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere. The reason is one of those Beltway scandals that deserves more public attention, not least because the episode is doing tangible harm to U.S. national interests. The stability of the Americas is obviously vital to U.S. security, and U.S. leadership is essential for a stable Latin America. But with Colin Powell and Mr. Bush otherwise engaged with the Middle East, the absence of...
  • Cuba reform effort renewed

    04/29/2003 12:33:19 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies · 232+ views
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | April 29, 2003 | Sharon Behn
    <p>The United States would use "new creativity and vigor to hasten the inevitable democratic transition on the island," said Roger Noriega, President Bush's pick to be assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.</p> <p>Washington is incensed by Mr. Castro's roundup of 75 journalists and political dissidents, and the summary trials and executions of three persons found guilty of trying to hijack a ferry boat to reach the United States.</p>
  • A bull's-eye for Castro in Washington

    01/18/2003 12:42:43 PM PST · by Jean S · 2 replies · 176+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 1/18/03 | Robert Novak
    THE Bush White House last week closed an open wound to minimize apparent pain. To avoid a prolonged Senate confirmation struggle for Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, he was given a new advisory post at the White House.Reich's former State Department job went to veteran foreign policy operative Roger Noriega, whose anti-Castro credentials are no less solid than Reich's. So, why aren't American foes of Cuba's communist regime happy? Fidel Castro has hit his target. From the moment President Bush nominated Reich, the Cuban dictator worked to block him. Committed to eventual regime change...
  • South America: Beware Risks to a Democratic Future

    01/13/2003 5:18:51 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 4 replies · 423+ views
    Insight ^ | Jan. 10, 2003 | J. Michael Waller
    Much of South America is spiraling into a political and economic morass that invites not only further demographic dislocation but an unprecedented haven for terrorism and political extremism. Yet in the Bush administration, only the Department of Defense (DoD) seems to be presenting a plan to salvage a democratic future for the region, even as the State Department and the National Security Council (NSC) offer only what one observer calls "bureaucratic bromides." U.S. inattention to its neighbors is reaping a bitter harvest: * Colombia, under a new, pro-U.S. president committed to smashing his country's two Marxist-Leninist narcoterrorist groups and eradicating...
  • Corrupt Latin leaders could lose assets in U.S., Bush envoy says

    09/08/2002 1:21:37 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 232+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | September 7, 2002 | TIM JOHNSON tjohnson@herald.com
    WASHINGTON - The top U.S. envoy to Latin America said Friday the Bush administration is studying whether it can seize properties that corrupt officials in the region purchase in the United States. Voicing dismay at public corruption, Otto Reich, the assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, said the Bush administration has ''pulled quite a few visas'' of Latin officials recently but wants to expand its anti-corruption drive. …. Reich, a Cuban-born lobbyist and former ambassador who took his post in January, has made fighting corruption a key element in U.S. foreign policy. In his public remarks, Reich mentioned...
  • Showdown over U.S. Cuba policy nears

    03/19/2002 3:09:39 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 43 replies · 776+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | March 19, 2002 | Pete Kasperowicz
    <p>A decades-old fight over the direction of Washington's Cuba policy is expected to enter a new phase this week as a bipartisan coalition of House members is scheduled to announce an organized effort to ease trade and travel restrictions against the Communist-ruled the island.</p>
  • U.S. policy on Cuba to receive full review

    03/14/2002 12:51:40 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 9 replies · 458+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AND TIM JOHNSON
    The Bush administration has ordered what it calls the first comprehensive review of U.S. policy on Cuba in several years in an effort to find more effective ways to bring about democratic changes on the island, senior administration officials say. Otto J. Reich, the Cuban-born top State Department official in charge of Latin American affairs, said in a telephone interview that he has ordered a review of all areas of the policy, including the four-decades-old U.S. trade sanctions on the communist-ruled island. The review is scheduled to be completed within weeks, he said. While not ruling out any outcome, Reich...
  • U.S. planning to keep corrupt Latin American officials out

    03/11/2002 1:17:41 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 15 replies · 391+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | March 10, 2002 | Andres Oppenheimer: The Oppenheimer Report
    ''People will understand that we are serious about going after government corruption,'' he added. ``There is a very selfish reason for this: We end up paying for the bill when these people steal the money, because we have to provide aid, or accept the citizens as refugees or as migrants.'' The Bush administration says it is about to unveil a new weapon to help fight corruption in Latin America: a list of corrupt government officials from the region who will be denied entry visas to the United States. The anti-corruption drive is being led by Otto J. Reich, the...