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October 2009
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Written by Nicholas Maliska
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Friday, 30 October 2009 19:59 |
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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.
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the embassy is there to help US citisens in trouble in brazil not to sell visas to rich brasilians .
to ask qusetions and to get answers on items like the goldman bot .
the brasilian woman hiding in brazil after killing her Marine Corps husband after he came back alive from the war.
to protect US tourtist being robed in brazil by gangs and the police .
not a yes man to go to parties and suck up to lula and have no real back bone
senator Jim DeMint is doing a service to his cause and many more senators are looking into joining him .