State Department announces Michael Kozak will take over responsibility as the new acting head of US diplomacy toward Latin America, luisalonsolugo and APjoshgoodman report.
FILE - In this March 13, 2019 file photo, Michael Kozak, ambassador for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor speaks during the release of the 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the Department of State in Washington. The State Department announced Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, that Kozak will take over responsibility for the Western Hemisphere department a month after Kimberly Breier resigned.
BOGOTA, Colombia — The new acting head of U.S. diplomacy toward Latin America is a seasoned envoy who once floated the idea of going into Chile unilaterally to snatch a politically powerful general who was behind the murder of a leftist politician in Washington in the 1970s. The appointment suggests the U.S. will continue to pursue a hard line against socialist Venezuela, even after President Donald Trump fired hawkish national security adviser John Bolton, saying there were strong disagreements over Iran, Afghanistan and a cascade of other global challenges. Kozak has beendeputy to Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy on Venezuela, and played a major role in shaping U.S. policy on Venezuela this year.
Trump’s comment came a day after foreign ministers from the 19 countries in the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance were called to meet later this month to assess options in responding to the Venezuela crisis. The treaty lists military action as one of the options available if the peace of the hemisphere is threatened, but the U.S. has said the goal of the meeting will be to address the crisis from a new framework and not a military intervention.
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