Top US diplomat for Latin America resigning

[Judi Lynn]

Top US diplomat for Latin America resigning
Posted: May 06, 2011 2:50 PM CDT
Updated: May 06, 2011 3:00 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration's senior diplomat for Latin America is stepping down.

The State Department says Arturo Valenzuela will leave this summer to return to a teaching post at Georgetown University after serving since 2009 as the assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Spokesman Mark Toner says that the administration will start looking for a successor and that it was deeply appreciative of Valenzuela's service.

Valenzuela, a Chile-born academic and veteran of the Clinton administration, is announcing his resignation at a time when no U.S. ambassador is posted to Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

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Arturo Valenzuela

[rabs]

1. When he was appointed in 2009

It was understood that it would be for a two-year term.

Suspect that it could have been extended, but Valenzuela as an academic probably got sick and tired of hawking hil's hawkish views against Correa, Christina, Hugo, Evo, Pepe, Daniel, Raul, Lugo, Dilma ...

[Judi Lynn]

2. What a shame she's got a right-wing view of Latin America. Horrible.

She may as well be a female Jesse Helms.