He died Alexander Haig, Former U.S. Secretary of State at the time of ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT at the Ronald Reagan (1981-1989). The "hawk" Haig, after having fought in Korea and Vietnam, he began his political rise in the seventies segretariogenerale becoming NATO, in the last 70 years, and conducting a strategic savage fighting with the Union Soviet missiles on questionedei .
According to the official biography, "President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime ," written by Lou Cannon in 1991, Haig, speaking to the president, talking about Cuba, said "Give me the word and I will turn That fucking island into a parkinglot " a classic of American diplomacy, which can be freely translated into "give me the order and we will convert the island into a fucking parking " .
Haig was just to give impetus to the first U.S. covert actions in Central America, against the guerrillas of Guatemala, Frente Farabundo Martí against in El Salvador and against Government the Sandinistas of Nicaragua.
to which they effect the words uttered by the president to curb Barack Obama "Oggipiangiamo the loss of a great American who haservito our country with distinction," "our best warrior in the tradition diplomaticadi those who dedicate their lives to public service." Now that you return to discuss Malvines, another pearl back in vogue Haig, who was sent to mediate between Britain and Argentina during the Malvinas-Falklands War in 1982.
In an interview published in 2007 by the Argentine newspaper Clarín, the mediator said "it was clear that in case of war, the United States would support the Gran Bretaña."
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