except for this story from the Latin press:
GUATEMALANS UNHAPPY WITH US REFUSAL – PRENSA LATINA, CUBA (DECEMBER 7): Disillusion prevails in Guatemalan circles after a high US official said her government would not concede a Temporary Protection Statute to Guatemalan immigrants. Guatemalan Executive authorities, including President Oscar Berger, saw their hopes vanish at the end of a meeting with US Undersecretary of State for Public and Foreign Affairs Karen Hughes.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B33CB4289-0299-4743-9412-21124DBA6555%7DMichael Petrelis
http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2005/12/lesbians-at-state-dept-dinner-karen.htmlSpeaking of the State Department, last week I wrote about the December 4-6 trip to Central America by the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Karen Hughes. I cracked wise about how she's like a diplomatic and press hurricane when she hits a region to promote the Bush agenda, usually generating much media attention.
Not this trip, at least not yet. Googling Hughes turns up nothing from her travels in the media, and to my real surprise, nothing about the trip, or whatever it is she's been saying to our neighbors to the south, has been posted on her page at the State Department's web site.
This is quite odd, given that she's has only one more day left on her trip before returning to the U.S., and after being in Central America for two days, with corporate bigwigs in her entourage, I'd expect _something_, anything on her trip to hit the newspapers or the State Department site.
Are no American newspapers following her journey? Has she contracted laryngitis and that is why no transcripts of her meetings and speeches have been posted by the State Department site?
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