Terrorist sympathizer appointed by Bush as ambassador to Nicrargua

This is from paulitics blog. Of course the terrorists were the Contras. Together with Negroponte another Bush favorite Callahan supported and facilitated the Contra counter-revolution. The nauseating story of CIA involvement is detailed at this site among others. Among the terrorist acts of the CIA was the mining of Nicaraguan harbours:
" The World Court declared the American mining illegal but the U.S. government chose to flout the law and continued the mining. The government of Saudi Arabia secretly arranged with the CIA to fund the Contras at the rate of $1 million a month. This money was laundered via a bank account in the Cayman Islands (under the name of Lt. Colonel Oliver North) to a Swiss Bank account, and thence to the Contras. "
Daniel Ortega was the leader of the Sandanistas and is now again president of Nicaragua. It is surely a gross insult to send Callahan. However, I guess you can say that he knows the ropes. Anyway, Ortega is now corrupted and probably quite able to adjust to the situation. Only Nicaraguans will suffer.



U.S. president George W. Bush has just appointed Robert Callahan as the United State’s Ambassador to Nicaragua. Callahan was John Negroponte’s (the former Ambassador to Honduras) right hand man, spokesman and speachwriter while the two were co-ordinating the operations of the Contras in Nicaragua during the 1980s.