Aubrey Cohen: Aerospace reporter
Boeing may lose a $7.5 billion jet fighter
sale to Brazil unless the
U.S. senator lifts a four- month
delay in confirming President
Barack Obama's nominee for
ambassador to the country,
Bloomberg reported Thursday.
"This will cost thousands of
U.S. jobs," Bernard Aronson,
who served as top envoy to
the region from 1989 to 1993,
told Bloomberg. "It's an insult
to Brazil to tell them they're
not important enough to have
an ambassador like so-called
advanced countries but that we
want them to buy
our planes over the French."
Aronson is one of nine ex-Assistant
Secretaries of State for the
Western Hemisphere who
yesterday sent a letter urging
Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla.,
to stop blocking a vote on
career diplomat
Thomas Shannon's nomination,
Bloomberg reported.
Aronson said the delay may
help France's Dassault Aviation SA
beat Boeing in the competition
to sell Brazil 36 warplanes.
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