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"US Ambassador to Brazil Held Hostage to Republican Senator's Intransigence" - Brazil

Nine months after President Barack Obama took office, Washington still lacks two of its key Latin America policy-makers. Obama's nominations for Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, and Ambassador to Brazil, Dr. Thomas Shannon, have been placed on "hold" by Senator Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, over objections to the Obama administration's handling of the coup in Honduras. - full story

Published in: Brazil » South America » by Brazzil MagazineOctober 30, 2009
Filed under: politics

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