Latin American Herald Tribune: A total of 19 U.S. Latino lawmakers sent a letter to Republican presidential hopeful – and Florida senator – Marco Rubio asking him to stop blocking confirmation of the assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, Roberta Jacobson, as ambassador to Mexico, congressional officials reported Monday.
The legislators emphasized the U.S. government’s need to have a diplomatic representative in the capital of our southern neighbor as soon as possible, given that – after the exit of the man who had filled that post up until July, Tony Wayne – the post is vacant. Read more.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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