Otto J. Reich is perhaps the most unreconstructed, href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/">old-style rightist
appointee in the Bush administration. A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,608019,00.html">friend and
protector of Cuban emigre terrorist Orlando Bosch, Reich was also href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2002_04_14.html#000057">implicated in
the United States' seeming involvement in the failed coup against Venezuela's
Hugo Chavez last April. He href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/7280.htm">runs Latin America policy
at the State Department.

Recently, the St. Paul Pioneer Press asked Reich if he had any advice
for out-going Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and state business executives who
are accompanying him on a trade href="http://www.amazon.com/paypage/P2MXVQK2QYHJWK">mission to Cuba this month. Reich
told the
paper: "First, I would ask them not to participate in sexual tourism, which
is one of the main industries in Cuba."

Ventura called the remark "offensive" and href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15357-2002Sep13.html">said:
"At the very least, he and President Bush owe my wife and children a personal
apology."

A State Department spokesman rebuffed Ventura's request.