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Article: White House Nominates Envoy to Western Hemisphere Organization.
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- March 26, 2003
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By Andres Oppenheimer, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 26--President Bush announced Tuesday that he will nominate White House Latin American advisor John F. Maisto as U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States as part of a reshuffling of his Western Hemisphere policy team.
The announcement came after the nomination Monday of current OAS Ambassador Roger Noriega to be assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, the top job overseeing U.S. ambassadors in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. Both jobs require congressional approval.
Noriega, a grandson of Mexican immigrants who made ...