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Defend America on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:52:09 PM
La Raza Activist Named U.S. Ambassador
Last Updated: Tue, 12/15/2009 - 3:34pm
A
leftist La Raza activist previously forced out of a U.S. ambassadorship
for her close ties to a terrorist-sponsoring foreign government has
been nominated by President Obama to a key administration post.
Mari Del Carmen Aponte, a former director at the extremist Mexican group National Council of La Raza (see the press release
applauding her nomination) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and
Education Fund, has been handpicked by Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador
to El Salvador. That means Aponte, an attorney and independent
consultant, will represent the State Department in the civil
war-ravaged Central American country.
In 1998 Bill Clinton nominated Aponte, who was a member of his
transition team, to be U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic but
she was forced to withdraw after news broke about her tight
relationship with an agent of Communist Cuba’s spy agency. The island
nation has appeared on the State Department’s terrorism list
since the early 1980s for supporting designated Foreign Terrorist
Organizations—from South America and Europe—and for harboring fugitives
from U.S. justice, including domestic terrorists. Cuba’s government
also maintains close relationships with other state sponsors of
terrorism such as Iran and Syria.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/dec/la-raza-activist-named-u-s-ambassador