Mari Carmen Aponte is a Washington DC-based Puerto Rico-born attorney who served as the United States ambassador to El Salvador from August 2010 until December 2011. She was given a recess appointment to the post in August 2010 that expired at the end of 2011.
And according to "Latino Partership for Conservative Principles" the reason she was not reinstated is because Majority Leader Harry Reid and others...and I quote from Alfonso Aguilar, executive director:
"This blatant attempt at racial identity politics is offensive and condescending to all Latinos," he said in a statement Thursday....
... Aguilar, who is Puerto Rican, said he opposed Aponte for her advocacy of gay rights issues in El Salvador, "not because she is a fellow Puerto Rican." ...
Right. It is so good to know Senator Rubio is part of mainstream America. Senator DeMint is the genuinely decent guy I would follow example. I am sure the majority of Americans would agree those violent uprisings she has been leading is completely against State Department policy.
DeMint: El Salvador Ambassador Has “Gay Agenda” (click here)
Sen. Jim DeMint says U.S. ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte wants “to impose a pro-gay agenda” on El Salvador — but she’s merely praising the Salvadoran government’s own pro-LGBT...
Well, I'll tell you one thing, I wouldn't trust the USA military in her hands. I guess Senator Menendez is one of THE OTHERS conspiring to make Gay a national referendum to defeat the sovereignty of White America!
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., (click here) called her an “excellently qualified Latina who is being politically discriminated against.” But her chief foe, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said Republicans had pressed for months for details on her background to no avail. “Why did she refuse to take a lie detector test? Why did she withdraw her nomination under (President Bill) Clinton?” he asked.
So, tell me Senator DeMint have you ever taken a lie detector test? Did they actually REQUIRE Ms. Aponte to take one or is this a statement about how it was never a requirement in the first place. There would need to be a reason to require one, like DRUG CARTEL AFFILIATES.
Now run Senator DeMint as fast as those legs can take you, to a Murdoch affiliate or Glen Beck to reassure the trembling nation you are still a Tea Party member. Run, hurry, don't wait there is air time for you when you 'drop in' like a good friend or neighbor and take Rubio with you and explain how this women is the worst thing that ever happened to the USA State Department in El Salvador.
It is such a relief to know DeMint and Rubio are standing the line on never sending qualified Hispanic Lawyers to Central America, just like the elite panel of men discussing women's health in a House meeting room without one woman there to assist. Amazing. So very complete in their thought processes to realize Hispanic representatives in Latin America and women with health concerns are their own problem. Most admirable.
...Thirteen years ago, when Clinton nominated Aponte, reports surfaced that a former live-in boyfriend, Roberto Tamayo, had ties to Cuban intelligence in Fidel Castro’s regime and that Cuban intelligence agents had tried to recruit her. The head of the Foreign Relations Committee at the time, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., signaled he would question Aponte about the allegations at her confirmation hearing; she withdrew her nomination. In the end, the FBI cleared her. On two occasions, Aponte has received top-secret security clearances....
Jessie Helms? DeMint and Rubio are still living the bigoted lie of Jessie Helms? Amazing. They are men who can think for themselves. What a fine example of American greatness.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., (click here) called her an “excellently qualified Latina who is being politically discriminated against.” But her chief foe, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said Republicans had pressed for months for details on her background to no avail. “Why did she refuse to take a lie detector test? Why did she withdraw her nomination under (President Bill) Clinton?” he asked.
So, tell me Senator DeMint have you ever taken a lie detector test? Did they actually REQUIRE Ms. Aponte to take one or is this a statement about how it was never a requirement in the first place. There would need to be a reason to require one, like DRUG CARTEL AFFILIATES.
Now run Senator DeMint as fast as those legs can take you, to a Murdoch affiliate or Glen Beck to reassure the trembling nation you are still a Tea Party member. Run, hurry, don't wait there is air time for you when you 'drop in' like a good friend or neighbor and take Rubio with you and explain how this women is the worst thing that ever happened to the USA State Department in El Salvador.
It is such a relief to know DeMint and Rubio are standing the line on never sending qualified Hispanic Lawyers to Central America, just like the elite panel of men discussing women's health in a House meeting room without one woman there to assist. Amazing. So very complete in their thought processes to realize Hispanic representatives in Latin America and women with health concerns are their own problem. Most admirable.
...Thirteen years ago, when Clinton nominated Aponte, reports surfaced that a former live-in boyfriend, Roberto Tamayo, had ties to Cuban intelligence in Fidel Castro’s regime and that Cuban intelligence agents had tried to recruit her. The head of the Foreign Relations Committee at the time, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., signaled he would question Aponte about the allegations at her confirmation hearing; she withdrew her nomination. In the end, the FBI cleared her. On two occasions, Aponte has received top-secret security clearances....
Jessie Helms? DeMint and Rubio are still living the bigoted lie of Jessie Helms? Amazing. They are men who can think for themselves. What a fine example of American greatness.
Sen. Jesse Helms Dead at 86 (click here)
...Called "Senator No" by some, Helms consistently argued against the United Nations, communism, government spending, welfare, arms control and foreign aid. He was pro-military, and often derisive on topics and people he opposed, including Martin Luther King Jr. and homosexuality....
So, Senator Rubio is a wolf in sheep's clothing when it comes to promoting minorities. He is just in the Senate to continue to pander to Wall Street like the rest of his peers at the GOP. Helms was a Bible Toting Bigot and Racist though and though and this is the man the GOP aspires to as a hero. Wow. Long live the KKK!
Montano has lived near Boston for about a decade. He was among 20 Salvadorans separately indicted in Spain last year in connection with the slayings during El Salvador's 12-year civil war.
Montano was arrested on the immigration charges last year. He signed a plea agreement with prosecutors but later informed the court that he would not plead guilty....
Quite the contrary to popular beliefs among the GOP, the division of the people of El Salvador has stemmed from religious divisiveness. The USA needs an ambassador that can understand the place the USA plays and has played with the people of that nation. The problem in El Salvador is the same as any other country experiencing violence based in religion and ethnicity, THEY ARE IMPOVERISHED.
The GOP adheres to Reagan Era foreign policy. The fact of the matter is the Salvadoran government was unable to establish itself because of the power of the Contras. You know the Contras, "Iran-Contra Affair." Reagan and those that adhere to his policies even today like to 'play god' in countries like El Salvador with huge power vacuums.
Catholic missionaries get caught up in taking sides, primarily for their own survival. The last thing El Salvador needs is another divisive religious figure as ambassador from the USA.
Placing a well established lawyer in El Salvador as a USA Ambassador with an open door to all the oppressed, including the gay community, is our best representation in that country. It will allow stability and insight to the most dire needs of the population.
There is a global effort, not by the USA, but by the gay community at large to empower the homosexual community to protect their lives in every country. The global gay community again has risen to maintain the safety of their community as they did during the HIV eruption. The gay community are often scapegoats in highly charged religious ethnic movements/violence. When scapegoats exist in a country it empowers the violence and increases instability.
Her appointment and position on gay empowerment is one reflected by global interests and it is not about destroying faith, it is about stabilizing countries and rooting out the cartels while ending the power vacuum.
The USA is very, very lucky to have such a lawyer to ask to serve this country and stand up for what is 'the best of values' when every country in Latin and South America is facing in some form the assault of drug cartels that seek to flourish through the USA southern border. Her denial of continued service to the State Department is an assault on the sovereignty of the USA and adds to the power vacuum in Latin and South America while providing more opportunity for drug cartels to flourish.
DENISE LAVOIE
AP Legal Affairs Writer
First Posted: February 16, 2012 - 10:49 am
Last Updated: February 16, 2012 - 4:12 pm
Last Updated: February 16, 2012 - 4:12 pm
BOSTON— A former Salvadoran military officer (click here) accused of colluding in the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit priests pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of fraud and perjury for allegedly lying on U.S. immigration forms.
Inocente Orlando Montano, 69, was arraigned in U.S. District Court on eight charges related to the alleged immigration fraud.Montano has lived near Boston for about a decade. He was among 20 Salvadorans separately indicted in Spain last year in connection with the slayings during El Salvador's 12-year civil war.
Montano was arrested on the immigration charges last year. He signed a plea agreement with prosecutors but later informed the court that he would not plead guilty....
Quite the contrary to popular beliefs among the GOP, the division of the people of El Salvador has stemmed from religious divisiveness. The USA needs an ambassador that can understand the place the USA plays and has played with the people of that nation. The problem in El Salvador is the same as any other country experiencing violence based in religion and ethnicity, THEY ARE IMPOVERISHED.
The GOP adheres to Reagan Era foreign policy. The fact of the matter is the Salvadoran government was unable to establish itself because of the power of the Contras. You know the Contras, "Iran-Contra Affair." Reagan and those that adhere to his policies even today like to 'play god' in countries like El Salvador with huge power vacuums.
Catholic missionaries get caught up in taking sides, primarily for their own survival. The last thing El Salvador needs is another divisive religious figure as ambassador from the USA.
Placing a well established lawyer in El Salvador as a USA Ambassador with an open door to all the oppressed, including the gay community, is our best representation in that country. It will allow stability and insight to the most dire needs of the population.
There is a global effort, not by the USA, but by the gay community at large to empower the homosexual community to protect their lives in every country. The global gay community again has risen to maintain the safety of their community as they did during the HIV eruption. The gay community are often scapegoats in highly charged religious ethnic movements/violence. When scapegoats exist in a country it empowers the violence and increases instability.
Her appointment and position on gay empowerment is one reflected by global interests and it is not about destroying faith, it is about stabilizing countries and rooting out the cartels while ending the power vacuum.
The USA is very, very lucky to have such a lawyer to ask to serve this country and stand up for what is 'the best of values' when every country in Latin and South America is facing in some form the assault of drug cartels that seek to flourish through the USA southern border. Her denial of continued service to the State Department is an assault on the sovereignty of the USA and adds to the power vacuum in Latin and South America while providing more opportunity for drug cartels to flourish.
DeMint is typical of the 'old world' under Reagan. It is a lot more than opportunistic economic strategies through inappropriate government deregulation. Reagan never had an economic strategy, he simply deregulated. That is not a strategy or a sustainable economy.
One other thought, the USA Embassies are there to serve the USA and those Americans that find themselves abroad for whatever reasons are their own. The citizens the State Department concerns itself with are Americans. All Americans, including minorities and gays. Got a problem with that?
One other thought, the USA Embassies are there to serve the USA and those Americans that find themselves abroad for whatever reasons are their own. The citizens the State Department concerns itself with are Americans. All Americans, including minorities and gays. Got a problem with that?
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