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From: "PANG2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "taguara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: Reich
> President Bush Thursday chose Cuban-American Otto J. Reich to be the State
> Department's top diplomat for Latin America -- an appointment that could
> resurrect the 1980s partisan divisions in Congress over U.S. policy in
> Central America. Otto Juan Reich was born in Havana on Oct. 16, 1945, and
> came to the United
> States in 1960. He was a U.S. Army civil affairs officer in Panama from
1967
> to 1969. Before he went to Caracas, Reich, 55, ran the State
Department's
> now defunct Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean
> from its inception in June 1983 until January 1986. His role was to rally
> the U.S. public behind the Reagan-backed Contras' opposition to
Nicaragua's
> leftist Sandinista government.
> Reich was Reagan's ambassador to Caracas when Miami's Orlando Bosch was
> released from a Venezuelan jail. Bosch, now 74, was held in a Venezuelan
> jail for 11 years on charges of
> masterminding the October 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed all
> 73 people on board. He was released in 1988 after 11 years without
> conviction or acquittal and
> arrived in Miami, where lawyers were able to secure his residency.
> Gov. Bush told the Times that he considers Reich "a talented and
experienced
> diplomat." He telephoned his brother to express his support for Reich, who
> is also a co-chairman of the Americas Forum, a conservative study group on
> the region.
>
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