Chile’s Piñera Firmly Backs Insulza for OAS Post

Monday, 15 February 2010 06:30
Written by Steve Anderson

While Brazil and Santiago Times chide “narrow view” of Washington Post editorial

President-elect Sebastian Piñera on Friday strongly backed Jose Miguel Insulza’s bid for a second term as head of the Organization of American States (OAS), putting to rest doubts raised by a Washington Post editorial that questioned Insulza’s fitness for the job.

The Washington Post editorial dovetailed with a Friday opinion piece in published in Chile’s conservative El Mercurio newspaper that also urged Insulza’s removal from his OAS leadership job.

Jose Miguel Insulza, courtesy of Insulza (flickr)
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Steve Anderson

Publisher and journalist Steve hails from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he once served as a VISTA volunteer, taught school, practiced law and was involved in community affairs as a justice of the peace on the local Quorum Court. He was also involved in national affairs as an aide to Arkansas Congressman Bill Alexander (1st District). While busy making other plans, force majeure took him to Chile in 1987. In 1991, he launched the Chile Information Project (CHIP) and The Santiago Times as a hobby and spin-off from a project he began while working at the Catholic Church's Vicaria of Solidarity. After stringing for various international mining and fruit export publications, he now is trying to make his hobby into a business — perfecting The Santiago Times and giving life to The Valparaiso Times, Atacama Times and The Patagonia Times. Steve now lives just outside of Puerto Montt on his farm in the community of Panitao, where he works on The Patagonia Times and grows alerce trees. He enjoys spending lots of quality time with his media naranja María Loreto and his son Ray.

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