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Latin America: no habla espanol. (George Bush considering Democrat Bernard Aronson for Department of State position) (American Survey)

Economist (US), The, February, 1989

Latin America No habla espanol

A DEMOCRAT to run Mr Bush's Latin American policy? Mr Bernard Aronson, a political consultant and former labour organiser who wrote speeches for the Carter administration, is said to be the president's choice to take Mr Elliott Abrams's old inter-American job at the State Department. This strange idea, dreamt up by that pillar of the right, Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois, must have struck Mr Bush as an inspired offering on the altar of foreign-policy bipartisanship. It does, however, have some drawbacks.

Mr Aronson's main qualification for the job, in the eyes of Messrs Bush, Abrams and Hyde, is that his eloquence contributed, more than any other single factor, to Mr Ronald Reagan's one great success in persuading...

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