NEWS !!!!ThIs just out..
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. may lose a $7.5 billion jet fighter sale to Brazil unless the U.S. Senate lifts a four- month delay in confirming President Barack Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Latin America’s biggest country, a former top U.S. diplomat to the region said.
Bernard Aronson is one of nine ex-Assistant Secretaries of State for the Western Hemisphere who yesterday sent a letter urging Senator George LeMieux, a Florida Republican, to stop blocking a vote on career diplomat Thomas Shannon’s nomination. Aronson said the delay may help France’s Dassault Aviation SA beat Boeing in the competition to sell Brazil 36 warplanes.