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Yikes! It’s Otto Reich

By Joel Bleifuss

Good soldiers get promoted, and Otto Reich, the designated assistant secretary of state for Latin America, was a good soldier—a veteran of the Reagan-Bush administration’s Iran-contra scandal. Reich’s nomination bodes ill, first for Latin Americans who must fear his support of the region’s most extreme political forces (he is director of the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington), and second… return to article

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