Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
In 2009, Obama could select any of the hundreds of diplomats available in the U.S. to occupy the Vatican embassy, but he suggested Caroline Kennedy, whose liberal views on abortion and marriage were not welcomed by the Holy See. So he had to find someone else for the work, again Obama could choose among hundreds of candidates with profiles different from Kennedy's, but no, he elected Douglas Kmiec, an outspoken advocate of the same ideas that caused the rejection of the first option, and this one was also no accepted.
In the end, the U.S. government and the Vatican managed to find an ambassador to leave both sides happy, but not before Obama launched a clear reformist message against the ideas of the Catholic Church on marriage and abortion.
The dispute with the Vatican was settled, now we go to 2010, and among the many tasks that the US president must handle is the appointment of a new ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The situation is similar to that described above, hundreds of names, tens of unique personalities, but Obama chooses Larry Palmer, the person who had once denounced the alleged growing discontent within the Venezuelan armed forces and the links between Chavez and the Colombian guerrillas.
The Venezuelan president's refusal is not strange, surely Obama will have to propose another person to the office in Caracas. However, the diplomatic language in the Palmer case is analogous to that used by Obama with the Vatican, although for different reasons. The White House is sending a message of warning to Miraflores, maybe rejecting the ties that the Chavez government would still maintain with the Colombian rebels.
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