Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 03/17/2005 | 08:22

La postulación, y casi inminente designación, del Secretario Adjunto de Defensa de los Estados Unidos, Paul Wolfowitz, ha ocasionado reacciones encontradas en los medios.

But despite a stint as US ambassador to Indonesia, Mr Wolfowitz is not widely known as an expert on poverty.

At 61, he has spent much of his career at the Pentagon, where he was seen as more cerebral but more ideological than the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.

... Mr Wolfowitz is inextricably linked with the greatest disasters of the war

The Guardian

Mr Wolfowitz is not only an international lightning rod because of his central role in mounting the Iraq war. The appointment of a conservative ideologue with no direct experience of the financial world is also likely to be unsettling to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as they seek G8 backing to cancel debts in the world's poorest nations.

The Independent

Unlike several of his predecessors, Mr. Wolfowitz would come to the World Bank presidency with real knowledge of development. He served as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia in the late 1980s, when that country was one of the World Bank's biggest clients and a poverty-reduction success story. Mr. Wolfowitz is also a persuasive communicator, an essential quality in the leader of an institution that is frequently attacked by ideologues on both the left and the right. And Mr. Wolfowitz has experience as a public-sector manager. The World Bank is an unwieldy, 10,000-strong bureaucracy. Mr. Wolfowitz's stint as No. 2 at the Pentagon should have prepared him for that.

Editorial de The Washington Post

Mr. Wolfowitz's career has hewed to those same unshrinking precepts, and in nominating him for the presidency of the World Bank, President Bush simultaneously removed one of the most influential and contentious voices in his war cabinet and rewarded one of his administration's most dogged loyalists with an influential and contentious spot in a wholly new realm.

The New York Times

A former dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, Wolfowitz is a leading proponent of the neoconservative ideology, which holds that the United States must exert its power to spread liberal democracy and market economies around the world. If approved by the bank's board, he is expected to tighten the institution's lending practices and use the World Bank to extend American foreign policy.

The Boston Globe