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Names: Restrepo to NSC

Sources tell The Cable that Dan Restrepo has informed friends and colleagues that he has joined the National Security Council to work on Latin American issues. Restrepo, previously a senior fellow and director of the Americas project at the Center for American Progress, served as the senior lead of the team advising the Obama campaign ...

Sources tell The Cable that Dan Restrepo has informed friends and colleagues that he has joined the National Security Council to work on Latin American issues. Restrepo, previously a senior fellow and director of the Americas project at the Center for American Progress, served as the senior lead of the team advising the Obama campaign on Latin American issues.

Sources tell The Cable that Dan Restrepo has informed friends and colleagues that he has joined the National Security Council to work on Latin American issues. Restrepo, previously a senior fellow and director of the Americas project at the Center for American Progress, served as the senior lead of the team advising the Obama campaign on Latin American issues.

Like several other former Lee Hamilton staffers who have gone onto Obama NSC jobs (Denis McDonough, Mara Rudman, Daniel Shapiro), Restrepo previously worked for Hamilton on the staff of the House International Relations Committee. Restrepo couldn’t immediately be reached, and an NSC spokesman said he hadn’t seen him yet.

Laura Rozen writes The Cable daily at ForeignPolicy.com.

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