Fellow travelers
The White House announced Monday that Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt would lead a delegation to the inauguration of Daniel Ortega as president of Nicaragua.
For those who missed the '80s, Ortega was a leader of the Sandanista movement, which overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979. In 1985, Ortega became president, but the Reagan administration didn't approve of his Marxist tendencies and bankrolled, trained and supplied Contra rebels who fought to overthrow the Ortega administration.
Ortega lost an election in 1990, but didn't fade from the scene and won the presidential election in November, to the chagrin of the U.S. government. Ortega promises a moderate rule this time.
In addition to Leavitt, the inauguration will be attended by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Should provide some interesting conversation for Leavitt: "Hey, remember that time my government used illegal arms deals to try to throw you out of power? Ah. Good times."
-- Robert Gehrke
For those who missed the '80s, Ortega was a leader of the Sandanista movement, which overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979. In 1985, Ortega became president, but the Reagan administration didn't approve of his Marxist tendencies and bankrolled, trained and supplied Contra rebels who fought to overthrow the Ortega administration.
Ortega lost an election in 1990, but didn't fade from the scene and won the presidential election in November, to the chagrin of the U.S. government. Ortega promises a moderate rule this time.
In addition to Leavitt, the inauguration will be attended by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Should provide some interesting conversation for Leavitt: "Hey, remember that time my government used illegal arms deals to try to throw you out of power? Ah. Good times."
-- Robert Gehrke
3:52 PM
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3 Comments:
And given the Missionary Training Center's role in providing the Central Intelligence Agency with foreign language-fluent operatives, the former Utah governor should feel most comfortable among Ortega's guests.
Wow. That was a statement.
I popped in here to make a joke about money laundering but anonymous seems to have owned the comment thread with that one.
I don't recall any CIA people at the MTC when I studied a foreign language there and later when I worked there as an instructor nor do any of my friends who studied and/or taught there.
Must be one of those hush-hush things that anonymous knows about.
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