'A pact with the devil': US congresswoman lets rip at Argentina, CFK over China ties
Friday, March 10, 2023
Buenos Aires Times
Republican lawmaker María Elvira Salazar uses congressional hearing to slam ties between Buenos Aires and Beijing, declaring the United States can't have an ally that "manufactures and exports Chinese military aircraft and sells them to neighbours."
Maria Elvira Salazar.
MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR. | PERFIL
A United States lawmaker has launched an extraordinary attack on Argentina and its government, describing a failed bid to buy Chinese fighter jets as akin to making a "pact with the devil."
US Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar used a hearing in Washington to voice her criticism of Argentina's foreign policy and warn that Buenos Aires may seek to acquire Chinese military aircraft.
"There are two worlds, the free world and the world of slaves, I hope the Argentines stay in the free world," declared Salazar, as she cautioned her peers about ties between Buenos Aires and Bejing.
The Republican lawmaker and chairwoman of the Western Hemisphere subcommittee used her speech to issue a direct warning to citizens and residents in Argentina.
More:
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/a-pact-with-the-devil-us-congresswoman-criticised-argentinas-military-cooperation-with-china.phtml
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Wikipedia entry for this embodiment of brilliance:
María Elvira Salazar
María Elvira Salazar (born November 1, 1961) is an American journalist, author, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 27th congressional district. She is a Republican assistant whip.[1] Before entering politics, Salazar worked for the Spanish-language network Telemundo for three decades after serving as a news anchor for Miami-based WSBS TV. She has also worked for CNN Español and Univision.
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Early life and education
Salazar was born in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, the daughter of Cuban exiles.[3] She grew up bilingual, speaking both Spanish and English.[4] She spent part of her childhood in Puerto Rico.[5]
Salazar studied at the Deerborne School of Coral Gables and graduated from Miami Dade College.[6] In 1983, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Miami, and in 1995, she earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.[7][8]
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She has frequently appeared as a guest on Fox News television programs such as Fox & Friends,[28] The O'Reilly Factor,[29] Tucker Carlson Tonight,[30] Hannity[31][32] and The Ingraham Angle,[33] as well as Mornings with Maria[34] on the Fox Business Network and on the conservative network Newsmax,[35] sometimes stylized under the name Elvira Salazar. Among her topics of discussion are immigration, border security and the fight against socialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elvira_Salazar
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Commentary
Salazar's Hypocrisy Reminds Us How Harmful 'Socialista' Hysteria Is To South Florida
WLRN 91.3 FM | By Tim Padgett
Published November 6, 2020 at 6:30 AM EST
COMMENTARY Congresswoman-elect Maria Elvira Salazar used the McCarthy tactics she once faced. Her success signals a darker South Florida political culture.
Maria Elvira Salazar apparently has a short memory.
Just two years ago the former TV journalist faced sleazy accusations during her Republican primary bid for Florida’s 27th congressional district. A rival called Salazar, who is Cuban-American, a fan of Cuba’s late communist dictator Fidel Castro simply because she’d interviewed Castro in 1995. One especially underhanded attack ad edited the interview to make it look and sound as if she’d fallen in love with el comandante. The spot asked: “Whose side are you on, Maria?”
I wrote a commentary defending Salazar – and called her win in that primary an encouraging sign that Miami politics was shedding its sinister McCarthyism.
But boy do I look stupid and naïve now, folks. This year’s election not only confirmed malicious McCarthyism is alive and smearing in South Florida – it showcased Salazar as one of its most enthusiastic practitioners.
On Tuesday Salazar unseated the 27th District’s Democratic congresswoman, Donna Shalala, in no small part by conjuring the same slur tactics Salazar faced in that 2018 primary. She branded Shalala – as falsely and toxically as Salazar was labeled two years ago – a “socialist” in the mold of all the left-wing Latin American dictators so many Latinos in South Florida have fled. She hurled that same bogus epithet at the Black Lives Matter racial justice movement and claimed Shalala, Joe Biden and the Democrats get their orders from its leaders.
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What’s just as civically harmful as the reckless bile is the shameless double standards, which Salazar paraded in ways that would have made even a two-faced politico like Fidel Castro blush. She had the unmitigated brass to call Shalala and Democrats socialistas because of policies like Obamacare; then she turned around and told voters Obamacare was OK because she knew damn well how popular it is with South Floridians – especially with the Cubans and other Latinos in her district to whom she was most loudly preaching the ¡Demócratas-son-socialistas! propaganda.
https://www.wlrn.org/commentary/2020-11-06/salazars-hypocrisy-a-reminder-how-harmful-socialista-hysteria-is-to-south-florida
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JERRY IANNELLI SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 8:00AM
POLITICS
Testimony From GOP Miami Candidate Helped Acquit Notorious Cuban Bomber
JERRY IANNELLI SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 8:00AM
via YouTube
In Little Havana, it was an open secret that Luis Posada Carriles had blown up a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 people. And many observers later suspected Carriles was also behind a series of 1997 attacks on Cuban hotels that killed an Italian tourist and injured 11 others.
But in a 1998 interview with then-Telemundo TV host Maria Elvira Salazar, the anti-Castro terrorist seemed to outright confess to those hotel attacks.
"I accept responsibility for any act in Cuban territory against the Havana regime," Posada told Salazar on her show Polos Opuestos. In a follow-up TV appearance the next day, Salazar stated on-air that Posada "admitted masterminding the explosions that happened in Cuba last year."
But when Salazar was called to the stand years later in a 2011 federal trial against Posada that hinged on whether he had in fact orchestrated the bombings, she changed her tune and testified she did not know whether the infamous bomber had confessed to killing innocent people.
Now that Salazar has won the GOP primary to challenge the seat being vacated by retiring Congresswoman Ileana Ros Lehtinen, some others involved in Posada's trial say Salazar's testimony was at best unbelievable and at worst an outright attempt to cover for the bomber.
More:
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-candidate-maria-elvira-salazar-testified-in-posada-carriles-trial-10687282
"former New York Times journalist Ann Louise Bardach."
Here's the article, available through the archive service posted by a DU'er recently!
Castro Enemy Said to Have Recounted Role in Attacks
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By Dan Frosch
March 16, 2011
EL PASO — A journalist called as a key prosecution witness in the perjury trial of an elderly anti-Castro militant testified on Wednesday that the defendant had described in detailed interviews his role in a wave of bombings that tore through Havana in 1997.
The witness, Ann Louise Bardach, was a contract writer for The New York Times when she interviewed the man, Luis Posada Carriles, in 1998. The interviews were the foundation for articles she wrote that year with Larry Rohter, a reporter for The Times, in which Mr. Posada spoke about coordinating the bombs at hotels and restaurants to frighten tourists.
Mr. Posada, 83, has been on trial in federal court here for two months, but not for the attacks in Havana that killed an Italian tourist, or in connection with the downing of a Cuban jet in 1976 that killed 73 people — both of which have made him a wanted man in Cuba and Venezuela.
He is charged instead with perjury, obstruction of federal proceedings and making false statements during a naturalization hearing. Ms. Bardach’s testimony is critical to the prosecution’s case.
Federal prosecutors say Mr. Posada, who was on the C.I.A.’s payroll during the 1960s and ’70s, lied during immigration hearings more than five years ago about how he had gotten into the United States and about his involvement in the Havana bombings.
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https://archive.ph/BqpWU#selection-281.0-429.249
Ann Louise Bardach, journalist, author, respected authority
Ann Louise Bardach also had an interview with Fidel Castro
Luis Posada Carriles, bomber, mass murderer, as a young man, before he was disfigured by being shot in the jaw.
