Pompeo: Trump's 'America first' policy creating 'hemisphere of freedom'
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 23, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a major speech in Florida Thursday that President Trump’s foreign policy puts “America first,†but stressed that the mantra actually means helping oppressed people in other nations fight for freedom and democracy — especially in the Western Hemisphere.
“It’s time to have our hemisphere, the place we are today, be a hemisphere of freedom,†Mr. Pompeo told a supportive crowd that interrupted him often with applause, and greeted him with chants of “U.S.A., U.S.A, U.S.A.,†at Sumter County Fairgrounds in Bushnell, Florida.
The speech came on the heels of multi-nation tour of South America and the Caribbean this week by the secretary of state. It also comes against a backdrop of decline among left-leaning political movements in Latin America and the election of pro-capitalist conservative governments in several nations of the region.
Read more at: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/23/mike-pompeo-trump-america-first-policy-creating-he/
Busy man, he's going to go to Ukraine... and...
Pompeo talks Nicaragua after Florida Senate condemns Ortega
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, The Associated Press
Jan. 23, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed Latin American affairs with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday, the day after the state Senate unanimously voted to condemn Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
DeSantis and Pompeo hosted a roundtable discussion with prominent members of South Florida's Venezuelan community, as well as government and elected officials. It was closed to the press.
“He asked me to come down here to talk with a number of folks about the opportunities and challenges that are presented from the tyranny that is taking place both in Venezuela and Cuba,†Pompeo said in a phone interview with The Associated Press before the meeting. “We want economic relationships between the United States, between Florida and South and Central America to flourish.â€
Read more at: https://www.timesunion.com/news/us/article/Pompeo-talks-Nicaragua-after-Florida-Senate-14998996.php
FWIW, this is kind of leftwing prattling here, just adding on in case, we hear something about this:
Daniel Dale
@ddale8
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly says the following happened after the interview in which she asked some tough questions to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1220837170484797445
See, he's heading to Ukraine:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-01-24/pompeo-heads-to-ukraine-next-week-as-impeachment-winds-downI think Pompeo was upset because there was some question about whether he should speak well of Yovanovitch, if not in that interview, in general.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799244678/pompeo-wont-say-whether-he-owes-yovanovitch-an-apology-i-ve-done-what-s-right(NPR story), so yeah, this is what this might be about.
