I knew Tony Garza. I haven’t a clue as to the new ones.
The new nominee Wayne seems to have the kind of experience required for ‘failed states’ duty.
You know, I have been thinking about this. He chose a career foreign-service guy who has been in some dicey places. I think that is a good sign, in that he didn’t send in one of his ideologue friends to screw things up worse. I almost want to think that BO realizes he doesn’t know anything about Mexico and had better leave it to the experts. That would be surprising. The Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs, Arturo A. Valenzuela, who definitely had an agenda, who wasn’t even born in this country, and who might be characterized as anti-American, is leaving this summer. It could have been him, which would not have been good for our interests. Valenzuela sat on his hands when some very bad things were happening in Latin America. Menos mal.