New UN General Assembly head hates America
New General Assembly Head Calls U.N. a ‘Dictatorship’
By BENNY AVNI, Staff Reporter of the Sun
June 5, 2008
UNITED NATIONS — Newly elected as president of the U.N. General Assembly, one of America’s fiercest longtime critics in Latin America is saying the dominance of a few countries has turned the United Nations into a dictatorship.
Although Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann said yesterday that his previous comments against American leaders were part of “history,” it appears that reversing decades of anti-American rhetoric will be a challenge for the former foreign minister of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
After his election yesterday to the presidency of the 192-member assembly, Mr. d’Escoto called the United Nations the world’s “longest-lasting dictatorship.” Members of the assembly, he said, “must unite in the struggle to democratize the United Nations” and free the world “for the sake of present and future generations … from the scourge of war among member states and acts of aggression such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
In a 2004 interview with the TV and radio program “Democracy Now!” Mr. d’Escoto, 75, called President Reagan “the butcher of my people.”