Tag: Arturo Valenzuela

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 14:51 UTC

  Obama proposes Roberta Jacobson for Western Hemisphere Affairs

  

  US President Barack Obama suggested that acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, be ratified in office, the White House announced.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2011 - 04:26 UTC

  US Congress de-lists Argentina from regional ‘democratic leaderships’

  

  For the second time in less than a month the United States Congress has sent a strong message to Argentina warning it “does not belong” to the group of countries that abides by international law and strongly promotes democratic values.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 04:00 UTC

  Washington ‘ready and willing’ to work with Humala, says US top diplomat

  

  “United States is “ready and very willing” to work with Peru's president-elect Ollanta Humala said Washington’s top diplomat for Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela during the Organization of American States meeting Monday in El Salvador.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 11:18 UTC

  Valenzuela, US top State Department official for Latam tenders resignation

  

  Expressing a desire to return to his academic post at Georgetown University, Chilean-born Arturo Valenzuela tendered his resignation as the head United States advisor for Latin American Affairs on Friday, May 6.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  Wikileaks knocks out second US ambassador in Latam: this time in Ecuador

  

  Ecuador is expelling the U.S. ambassador over a 2009 diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks in which the diplomat accused the country’s former police chief of corruption.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 - 00:10 UTC

  US offering Brazil “significant technology transfer” in jet fighters operation

  

  Brazil would receive a “significant technology transfer” if it buys US-made fighter jets, a US Defence Department official said, seeking to ease concerns before Brazil selects a winning bidder.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2011 - 05:57 UTC

  US Air Force plane cargo triggers serious Argentina/US diplomatic incident

  

  Argentina presented a formal protest to the United States embassy in Buenos Aires over the incident of a US Air Force plan that landed in the country last Thursday with alleged undeclared military equipment.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2010 - 06:01 UTC

  Retrurn of Honduras to OAS, is “only a matter of time”

  

  United States Under-secretary of State for Hemisphere Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, said Honduras' re-incorporation to the Organization of American States (OAS) “is progressing” and that it is only “a matter of time.”