Comments

You have commented 375 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

Government Corruption

The Biden administration would rather align itself with Marxists than pro-Western Euro or Latin American leaders

2024-02-16

[Washington Examiner] Juan Gonzalez, who led the Biden administration’s curious policy of embracing anti-United States Marxist leaders in Latin America while making enemies of their pro-Western counterparts, has resigned his post as the National Security Council’s top hemispheric adviser.

Gonzalez will depart the NSC in March to spend more time with his children, an anonymous official told Bloomberg on Tuesday.

The resignation came a day after Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, sent to the U.S. a seized Venezuelan cargo plane with ties to Iran, underscoring the folly of stiff-arming genuinely pro-American leaders while supporting those who may be leftist ideological allies of this White House but are arch-enemies of American national interests.

As the NSC’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, Gonzalez has personified that approach.

"Gonzalez is the architect of the administration’s failed Venezuela policy as well as most of the politicized aspects of our current regional engagement," Andres Martinez-Fernandez, the Heritage Foundation’s top Latin American expert, emailed me Tuesday night. "Friends of the U.S. in the region will be glad to see him go."

Gonzalez has wooed Venezuela’s Marxist strongman Nicolas Maduro, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M19 terrorist armed guerrilla movement, and Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, another Marxist leader with an anti-American animus.
Pro-immigration, drug cartel and 'people trafficking' implied in the above para.
On a trip just this month to South America, Gonzalez again tried to sell the baffling idea that Colombia’s Petro would be not just the ideal intermediary between Maduro and the opposition he crushes on a regular basis, but also between Maduro and Washington.

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: ed in texas 2024-02-16 19:15

#5 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-16 17:47

#4 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-16 11:09

#3 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2024-02-16 10:19

#2 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-16 06:26

#1 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-16 06:07

00:00