Negroponte Nomination Bemoaned
GRANADA – U.S. President George W. Bush's Feb. 17 nomination of John Negroponte as the United States' first National Intelligence Director is turning heads – and stomachs – in Nicaragua, a country all too familiar with this former Cold War warrior's human-rights track record.
While the mainstream U.S. media has largely whitewashed Negroponte's dark past in Central America (“
entire life has been a lesson in quiet and measured diplomacy,” Robin Roberts, of ABC's Good Morning America, cheerfully reported on Feb. 18), many Nicaraguans who remember him from when he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras in the 1980s are being less kind in their assessment of the newest Bush appointee.
“Negroponte is one of the leading terrorists at the service of U.S. expansionism,” Father Miguel D'Escoto, Nicaragua's former Minister of Foreign Relations under the Sandinista government, told The Nica Times this week. “His nomination is further evidence that Bush is one of the principal terrorists in the world.”
NEGROPONTE, 65, was the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985, during which time he helped to carry out the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolutionary war in Nicaragua, which claimed some 30,000 lives during the ‘80s.
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