In early May, Reich announced that in June he would be leaving his post as the White House special envoy to the Americas and joining Team Bush's reelection campaign. While it's too soon to know how Karl Rove and company intend to use him, keep your eye on Florida, where Reich has longtime connections to the right-wing Cuban exile community.
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With the Bush Administration, Reich seamlessly continued his career as an anti-democratic bullying bureaucrat. Questions about his participation in the April 2002 aborted coup in Venezuela remain a he-said, she-said matter: A recent report in Sojourners magazine, citing The Guardian newspaper, said that Abrams "gave the go-ahead to the coup leaders," and Reich, who was a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, "met numerous times with [Pedro] Carmona, the head of the short-lived junta."
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