New US Ambassador
According to Telam yesterday, The White House has confirmed the selection of Ms. Martínez as the next US ambassador to Argentina. Her bio shows a lifetime of activism as opposed to being a career diplomat.
Slate.com has a great article today on career diplomats vs. political appointmees to ambassadorships. I'm still laughing about this part:
"Ronald Spiers, former ambassador to Turkey and Pakistan, remembers a conversation with a Navy admiral, who told him that after retiring he'd like to serve as ambassador to Spain. To which Spiers, a lifelong diplomat, responded that upon retiring he would like to command the Sixth Fleet. "He didn't think it was funny."
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