Latin America’s Friends of Tyranny Club

Ray Walser / March 30, 2011

Libya’s seat at the United Nations is currently vacant. Weeks ago, Muammar Qadhafi fired his U.N. ambassador Mohammed Shalgham after the ambassador denounced the Libyan strongman as a tyrant. In his stead, Qadhafi named another veteran and loyal diplomat, Ali Treki. The U.S. has apparently denied Treki a visa to enter the U.S.

Qadhafi’s dear friend and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has stepped in, saying he is sending Nicaragua’s former foreign minister and all-purpose anti-American Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann to U.N. headquarters to act on Qadhafi’s behalf.

D’Escoto is no impartial diplomat. He worked previously for Ortega as foreign minister in the 1980s and as the largely symbolic but enthusiastically anti-American president of the 63rd General Assembly in 2008–2009. Now he is being recalled to serve two masters, Qadhafi and Ortega. (more…)