AACCLA Opening
Mexico City, May 14, 2012 –Ambassador Wayne today joined President Calderon and Mexico’s American Chamber President Carlos Paz Soldan at the launch of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA).
US-Mexico Partner to Protect Children
Mexico City, May 8, 2012 – U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne today joined Licenciada Margarita Zavala, at two schools in Ozolco, Puebla, to recognize the work being done through public-private partnerships to improve the lives of children in Mexico.
Ambassador Meets with Access Scholars
U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne met on Saturday May 5th with sixty English Access Microscholarship recipients in Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla. The state-of-the-art Foreign Language Center in the University welcomed the Ambassador warmly with a sign and panels showing the work of several scholarship recipients.
70th Anniversary of the Benjamin Franklin Library
Mexico City, April 27, 2012 – U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the first American overseas library, the Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico City on the evening of April 26.
Headlines
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides Outlines Economic Statecraft
“American foreign policy has not always recognized the simple truth that good diplomacy is good economics, and good economics is good for diplomacy,” Deputy Secretary Nides said.
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Mexican Secretariat of Health and Embassy Welcome US Trade Delegation
Mexico City, May 15, 2012 –Ambassador Wayne and Mtro. Miguel Limon today welcomed a trade delegation of 35 U.S. health care company officials.
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Statement on Intimidation of the Media
Mexico City, May 15, 2012 – The United States government deplores the intimidation of the media anywhere in the world
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Mission Blog
Y-20 Summit
Ambassador Wayne met with Y-20 Summit students in Puebla.
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Further Afield
Garita de Metales
U.S. Government assists in restoration of a Mexican Revolution building
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President Calderon, Ambassador Wayne Participate in AACCLA Opening; US Under Secretary for Commerce Sanchez Signs Global Buyer Initiative
Mexico City, May 14, 2012 – U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne today joined President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and Mexico’s American Chamber President Carlos Paz Soldan at the launch of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA). During the meeting U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Francisco Sanchez participated in the signing of the Global Buyer Initiative with Chambers of Commerce from 11 Latin American countries.
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Lic. Margarita Zavala, U.S. Ambassador Wayne Promote Public-Private Partnerships to Protect Children
Mexico City, May 8, 2012 – U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne today joined Licenciada Margarita Zavala, wife of President Felipe Calderon and President of the National System for Integral Family Development (DIF), at two schools in Ozolco, Puebla, to recognize the work being done through public-private partnerships to improve the lives of children in Mexico.
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U.S.-Mexican Law Enforcement Cooperation Results in 29-Year Prison Sentence for Child Pornographer
Mexico City, May 8, 2012 – A Mexican federal judge has sentenced a Mexican man to 29 years in federal prison for possession, transmission and production of child pornography. This sentence is the longest ever issued in Mexico on child pornography charges
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President Calderon, U.S. Ambassador Wayne and Puebla Governor Inaugurate Federal Police Training Facility
Puebla, May 4, 2012 – President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne, and Puebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle today inaugurated the Puebla National Police Academy—Academia Nacional de Formacion y Desarrollo Policial, Puebla-Iniciativa Merida, General Ignacio Zaragoza.
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Treasury Targets Leading Figures of Sinaloa Cartel
Washington, May 8, 2012 – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the designation of four key Sinaloa Cartel operatives, including two sons of Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman Loera. Today’s action, pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act), prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with these four individuals, and also freezes any assets they may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
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Ambassador Wayne Meets with Rectors of Puebla Universities to Boost Student Exchanges
Mexico City, May 4, 2012 – Ambassador Anthony Wayne met this morning with rectors of Puebla’s public and private universities to share ideas on how best to increase the numbers of U.S. and Mexican students studying in each other’s countries.
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U.S. Ambassador Tours Federal District’s Emergency Center
Mexico City, May 3, 2012 – U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne today toured the Federal District’s recently opened Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Integration, Information, and Investigation (C4-I4) Center with its Director General, Fausto Lugo, and with Marcela Gómez Zalce, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard’s chief of staff.
