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SHITLER appoints an ambassador to Mexico without diplomacy. Duh.
Trump's new Mexico envoy stirs hornet's nest with Frida Kahlo jab
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico has taken aim at Mexican icon Frida Kahlo for her support of Marxism, stirring up a fierce social media debate with a tweet asking if the painter had not been aware of atrocities committed in the name of that ideology. ....
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau, who was appointed by President Donald Trump and sworn in last month, must navigate a volatile bilateral relationship. Trump frequently berates Mexico over trade and immigration. ....
Landau’s tweet drew a mixture of responses. Some of the 1,600 comments were supportive, and accused the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of emerging from the same Marxist tradition.
Landau’s following on the online platform jumped to more than 76,000 on Monday from about 40,000 before the tweet.
Others were clearly irked, and blasted the United States for its long history of interfering in the internal affairs of Latin America and other countries around the globe, often to counter socialist governments.
“In the name of fighting that ideology, the U.S. killed children in Vietnam by bombing entire villages and supporting dictatorships throughout Latin America,” said user @Quetzalcoaltl1. ....
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Landau was born in Madrid, Spain, where his father, George (later United States Ambassador to Paraguay, Chile, and Venezuela), was then stationed with the Foreign Service. He attended the American School of Asunción, Paraguay, for five years, where he learned his fluent Spanish.[4] He graduated from Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, summa cum laude, in 1981.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts in history, summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1985, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa his junior year, earned a Certificate in Latin American Studies, and received the Sophia Freund Prize for the highest grade point average in his graduating class.[5] He wrote his senior thesis, which was awarded the Hoopes Prize, on United States relations with the leftist government of Venezuela in the mid 1940s.[1] He received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1989, where he was articles co-chair of the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize for the highest grade point average in his second year.
Legal career
After graduating from law school, Landau clerked for then-Judge Clarence Thomas of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He later clerked for Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas ... ....
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