Senate Confirms Radical Aponte as Ambassador to El Salvador

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 14th at 03:00 PM  | 

It’s another day in the Senate, and another radical Obama nominee is confirmed. Last August, flustered by Jim DeMint’s Senate hold, Obama used a recess appointment to name Maria del Carmen Aponte ambassador to El Salvador.  She was originally selected as ambassador to the Domincan Republic during the Clinton administration, but she withdrew her name after refusing to take a polygraph test concerning her relationship | Read More »

GOP Must Block Maria del Carmen Aponte from Becoming Ambassador to El Salvador

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 11th at 10:26 PM  | 

What is worse than an Obama radical czar?  An ambassador to a sensitive South American country that had an affair with a Cuban spy. Last August, stymied by Jim DeMint’s Senate hold, Obama used a recess appointment to name Maria del Carmen Aponte ambassador to El Salvador.  She was originally selected as ambassador to the Domincan Republic during the Clinton administration, but she withdrew her | Read More »