Ambassadors Named to Argentina, El Salvador
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WASHINGTON — Career diplomat James R. Cheek, stationed for 12 years in Nepal, Ethiopia and Sudan after the Ronald Reagan Administration’s 1981 purge of Latin America specialists, is the State Department’s choice to be the next ambassador to Argentina.
Cheek, a 30-year Foreign Service officer and, perhaps more important, an Arkansas native, was in the process of retiring when he returned to Washington after the election to work on the Clinton transition team.
Peter Romero, now deputy chief of mission in San Salvador, has been picked to be ambassador there. The State Department also has chosen Central America specialist John Maisto for Nicaragua.
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