Meet the Next President of the United Nations General Assembly

Nicaraguan Reverend Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann seems to be a perfect fit for this group:

D’Escoto served as foreign minister of Nicaragua during the Sandinista dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in the 1980s and is known for his extreme, stridently anti-American views.

In a June 2004 radio interview with Democracy Now, the Los Angeles-born Roman Catholic priest referred to former President Reagan as “the butcher of my people”, who was “responsible for the deaths of some 50,000 Nicaraguans,” and a leader who was “possessed by demons.” According to D’Escoto the United States was “the greatest enemy of the right of self-determination of peoples” and declared Americans to be “the most ignorant people around the world.”

D’Escoto was the pick of the 33-nation Latin American and Caribbean group within the UN. Under the system of regional rotation the bloc was able to put forward its own candidate for the presidency of the General Assembly (which controls the UN budget) without challenge from the rest of the world. He will take office at the next Assembly meeting in September, succeeding the low-key former foreign minister of Macedonia, Srgjan Kerim.

The UN budget is $4.2 billion for ‘08-’09. America’s portion of that budget adds up to around 23% of the total budget. That comes out to just a little over $966,000,000. Almost a billion American dollars, in the control of an organization that becomes more anti-American every day.

Isn’t it time to leave the United Nations?