Cuban-American to head House Foreign Affairs

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Cuban-American to head House Foreign Affairs
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
The Associated Press
Saturday, November 27, 2010; 3:51 AM

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Under her watch, the committee is expected to push for stepped-up sanctions against North Korea and Iran, more oversight of the U.N. and a block on any dialogue with Cuba. As a strong abortion foe, Ros-Lehtinen also may try to chip away at the president's executive order allowing foreign aid for international groups that provide information about abortion services.

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Ros-Lehtinen fled Cuba with her family at age 7. She taught elementary school, then started running her own school. She was in the Florida Legislature for six years before winning election to the U.S. House in 1989, her bid brokered by legendary Cuban-American political king-maker Jorge Mas Canosa. She completed her doctorate in education while serving in Congress.

The mother of two children and two stepchildren with her husband, former U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen, is still best known for her staunch support of the U.S embargo against the communist island.

"I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro," she told an interviewer in a 2006 British documentary.





Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/27/AR2010112700633.html

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http://narcosphere.narconews.com.nyud.net:8090/userfiles/70/RosLehtinenBush.JPG.jpeg
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's first campaign manager was Jeb Bush. With him, she lobbied his dad to allow mass murderer/bomber Orlando Bosch into the country, over the official judgement for exclusion by U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Joe D. Whitley.

CUBA: FLORIDA GOVERNOR JEB BUSH SENDS FULGENCIO BATISTA''S GRANDSON TO THE STATE SUPREME COURT.

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In 1976, Venezuelan authorities arrested Bosch for the bombing of a Cubana de Aviacion airliner that killed 73 people. Along with Bosch, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles and two Venezuelans were charged with the bombing. Posada Carriles escaped prison in 1985. After serving 10 years, Bosch was acquitted under suspicious circumstances and left the country, allegedly with the help of then US Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich and the administration of President George H.W. Bush.

Bosch returned to the US, but was denied a visa owing to Justice Department opposition. A Justice Department report concluded that there was considerable evidence that Bosch had engaged in terrorist acts in the US, Cuba, and other countries for 30 years.

Upon entering the US in 1989, Bosch was promptly arrested for violating his parole on a 10-year sentence for the 1968 Bazooka shelling of a Polish freighter bound for Havana from the Port of Miami. During the trial, both the judge and prosecutor said they believed Bosch used highly publicized terrorist acts to acquire power in the exile community and collect money.

Bosch was now officially considered a terrorist and a public danger by the Justice Department. But in August 1989, The New York Times reported that Florida State Sen. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen negotiated Bosch's release with the Bush administration, assisted by Jeb Bush who was Ros-Lehtinen's campaign manager. Jeb Bush was elected governor in 1990 while Ros-Lehtinen went to the US Congress--both with exile-community support.

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-2023530/CUBA-FLORIDA-GOVERNOR-JEB-BUSH.html

Document:
EXCLUSION PROCEEDING
for
ORLANDO BOSCH AVILA

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0054.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Netanyahu Apologizes to Florida Lawmaker for Fidel Castro Comments

Netanyahu Apologizes to Florida Lawmaker for Fidel Castro Comments
Updated: 2 days 15 hours ago
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Nov. 24) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unusual apology two weeks ago to Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the incoming chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, for admiring remarks he made about Fidel Castro, Haaretz reports today.

How did this odd situation come about?

It all began earlier this year, when Castro sat down with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who reported:

"Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism. He criticized (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and explained why the Iranian government would better serve the cause of peace by acknowledging the 'unique' history of anti-Semitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence. ... I was, I admit, also surprised to hear him express such sympathy for Jews, and for Israel's right to exist (which he endorsed unequivocally)."

The remarks elicited praise from Netanyahu, who said Castro's words "demonstrate his deep understanding of the history of the Jewish people and Israel," and a letter from Israeli President Shimon Peres to Castro.

More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x572296

[dipsydoodle]

2. Very strange

Does that mean mention of bovine pos's are ok in editorials but not LBN. :shrug:

She was even stupid enough to try denying she called for the assassination of Fidel Castro.

[Judi Lynn]

3. It's news to people like me, D.D.! It's TERRIBLE late breaking news

for all people who were waiting for President Obama to FINALLY end the travel ban for U.S. Americans Instead, he ended it for Cuban "exiles" and their progeny, and they retain exclusive rights to come and go while all other U.S. Americans are forbidden to be seen anywhere on the island, even sailing in little boats NEAR the island.

http://www.capitalcruises.com.nyud.net:8090/tasks/sites/capitalcruises/assets/Image/swan.jpg
Those of us who were waiting so expectantly for a good Democratic President to step in and clean UP this mess can just kiss our asses goodbye. We are simply screwn, and this Ileana troll is going to use every power she can muster to collect all her support from the US right-wing to take us all right back to the Cold War in our Latin America policy. She's pure right-wing, reactionary poison. What a beast.

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[Billy Burnett]

5. They don't want to roll back the history of Cuba. More money in status quo.

The powers that be want you to think that's their agenda, a distraction, while America's pockets are being picked.

The only reason the US/Cuba standoff remains an issue in the US has almost nothing to do with Cuba. It has to do with US campaign funding.

No Castro = no campaign platform (both for and against sanctions).

The sooner one understands the business of American politics the sooner one will realize that US policy on Cuba IS NOT run by an extreme minority of RW Cubans in Miami.

Cheers

[classysassy]

6. She is the Cuban

bitch that hung up on the President when he called her.