Today, I have taken action to prevent the Maduro regime from conducting “fire sales,” liquidating Venezuela’s critical assets—assets the country will need to rebuild its economy. This money belongs to the Venezuelan people. I have signed an Executive Order to prevent the Maduro regime from selling or collateralizing certain Venezuelan financial assets, and to prohibit ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 22 May, 2018 | Topics:
News, President Donald Trump, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
Venezuela’s election was a sham – neither free nor fair. The illegitimate result of this fake process is a further blow to the proud democratic tradition of Venezuela. Every day, thousands of Venezuelans flee brutal oppression and grinding poverty – literally voting with their feet. The United States will not sit idly by as Venezuela ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 21 May, 2018 | Topics:
News, Vice President Mike Pence, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Mike Pence
The following is attributable to Spokesperson Heather Nauert: Secretary Pompeo participated via videoconference today in the Lima Group foreign and finance ministers meeting, which was hosted by Mexico and included representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Saint Lucia. Representatives from the European Union and ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 15 May, 2018 | Topics:
News, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 – **As Prepared** It is great to be here with you all today. I first want to thank Susan Segal and Eric Farnsworth with the Council of the Americas. And of course I want to thank my esteemed predecessor Ambassador John Negroponte. I am here today because the Trump Administration places a ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 9 May, 2018 | Topics:
News, Speeches, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Nikki Haley, United Nations
The repugnant political violence by police and pro-government thugs against the people of Nicaragua, particularly university students, has shocked the democratic international community. As a nation that supports free speech as a human and civil right, the United States condemns the violence and repression propagated by the Government of Nicaragua and any closing of media. The ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 24 April, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Nicaragua
Acting Secretary Sullivan’s Meeting with Venezuelan Civil Society The below is attributable to Spokesperson Heather Nauert: Acting Secretary of State John J. Sullivan and USAID Administrator Mark Green met today with representatives from Venezuelan civil society on the margins of the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru. The Acting Secretary and the Administrator applauded ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 13 April, 2018 | Topics:
News, Press Releases, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
Acting Secretary of State John J. Sullivan will travel to Lima, Peru from April 11-14 to accompany Vice President Mike Pence at the Eighth Summit of the Americas. During the Summit, the United States will promote priorities of mutual interest to the region, including supporting democracy; addressing the political and humanitarian crisis and restoring democracy in Venezuela; stemming ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 10 April, 2018 | Topics:
News, U.S. Agencies, Western Hemisphere
The Vice President is honored to represent the United States at the 8th Summit of the Americas at President Trump’s request. He looks forward to promoting policy that will lead to an even stronger U.S. economy and working with our close allies in Latin America to collectively hold undemocratic actors in the region accountable for their ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 10 April, 2018 | Topics:
News, Vice President Mike Pence, Western Hemisphere
Press Statement Heather Nauert Department Spokesperson Washington, DC February 14, 2018 We support the decision of Peru, as the host of the upcoming Summit of the Americas, to withdraw its invitation to President Maduro of Venezuela. Peru’s decision was made with the support of the Lima Group, which upheld the high democratic standard for Summit ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 15 February, 2018 | Topics:
Human Rights, News, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Democracy, Maduro, Venezuela, WHA
Francisco Palmieri, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs The Washington Foreign Press Center Washington, DC February 9, 2018 MODERATOR: Welcome, everybody. We’re going to get started. We have about 30 minutes for this briefing, so I don’t want to waste any time. I would like to welcome Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 13 February, 2018 | Topics:
Secretary Rex Tillerson, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
February 8, 2018 – Statement by Heather Nauert, U.S. Department of State Spokesperson. The United States denounces the decision by Venezuela’s National Electoral Council to unilaterally advance presidential elections without guarantees to ensure free, fair, and internationally-validated elections.
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 8 February, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, Secretary Rex Tillerson, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Venezuela
Secretary’s Remarks: Joint Press Availability With Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland MODERATOR: (In progress) (Via interpreter) everybody and welcome to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We thank you for being here for the meeting of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of North America: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 3 February, 2018 | Topics:
News, Secretary Rex Tillerson, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Thank you, thank you so much. And thank you, Greg, for that very kind, warm introduction, inviting me back home today. And I want to thank those at the Clements Center of National Security and the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law for hosting the event as well. As Greg mentioned ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 1 February, 2018 | Topics:
News, Secretary Rex Tillerson, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Secretary Rex Tillerson, WHA
The United States stands with the Venezuelan people, and supports their efforts to resolve the economic, political, and humanitarian crises facing their country. We remain deeply concerned that the Venezuelan people are experiencing dire humanitarian conditions, to include lack of access to affordable food and vital medicine, medical supplies, malnutrition, and a rise in malaria ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 15 December, 2017 | Topics:
News, Western Hemisphere
Trilateral Summit – Colombia, United States and México In the City of Cartagena, Colombia, on December 6th and 7th, 2017, the Attorney General of Colombia, Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira, the Attorney General of the United States of America, Jeff Sessions; and the Acting Prosecutor General of the United Mexican States, Alberto Elías Beltran, held ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 7 December, 2017 | Topics:
Law Enforcement, News, Press Releases, U.S. & Mexico, U.S. Agencies, Western Hemisphere
Press Statement Heather Nauert Department Spokesperson Washington, DC October 27, 2017 The United States welcomes the Lima Group’s leadership in addressing the deteriorating situation in Venezuela. The Lima Group’s recent declaration in Toronto — including its support for the provision of humanitarian assistance for the Venezuelan people, condemnation of electoral abuses and call for electoral ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 30 October, 2017 | Topics:
News, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Lima
A U.S. delegation, led by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson, Department of State Deputy Assistance Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs John Creamer and Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Michael Dougherty, met with Mexico’s delegation, led by Eugenio Imaz Gispert, Director of Mexico’s Center for Investigation and National Security, to review our security cooperation ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 17 October, 2017 | Topics:
Ambassador, Law Enforcement, News, Secretary Rex Tillerson, U.S. Agencies, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Ambassador Jacobson, TCO
The United States applauds the courage, determination, and will of the Venezuelan people who tried to exercise their constitutional right to vote in the October 15 gubernatorial elections. We condemn the lack of free and fair elections yesterday in Venezuela. The voice of the Venezuelan people was not heard. Our previously stated concerns were unfortunately ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 16 October, 2017 | Topics:
News, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Gubernatorial elections
Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Working Dinner with President Michel Temer of Brazil, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, President Juan Carlos Varela of Panama, and Vice President Gabriela Michetti of Argentina Last night, President Donald J. Trump hosted a working dinner in New York with President Michel Temer of Brazil, President Juan ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 19 September, 2017 | Topics:
President Donald Trump, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Juan Carlos Varela of Panama, Panama, President Juan Manuel Santos, President Michel Temer, Vice President Gabriela Michetti
The U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana cautions U.S. citizens that as of 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time the National Hurricane Center is extending advisories for a potential tropical storm. Strengthening is forecast during the next 24 hours and the system could become a hurricane by Thursday or Friday. The disturbance is expected to become a tropical ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 30 August, 2017 | Topics:
Emergency Services, Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages, Tijuana, Western Hemisphere
President Donald J. Trump has signed an Executive Order imposing strong, new financial sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela. The Maduro dictatorship continues to deprive the Venezuelan people of food and medicine, imprison the democratically-elected opposition, and violently suppress freedom of speech. The regime’s decision to create an illegitimate Constituent Assembly—and most recently to have ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 25 August, 2017 | Topics:
News, President Donald Trump, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Financial Sanctions
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: President Santos, thank you for the warm welcome you and Maria Clemencia have shown to me and my wife, Karen. It was an honor, along with President Donald Trump, to welcome you to the White House during your historic visit in May. And now it is a personal honor for me to ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 14 August, 2017 | Topics:
News, Speeches, Vice President Mike Pence, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: President Santos, Vice President Pence
Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight individuals involved in organizing or otherwise supporting the creation of Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly (Asamblea Constituyente or AC) and participating in anti-democratic actions pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13692. The AC, which seeks to rewrite the Venezuelan constitution and dissolve Venezuelan ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 9 August, 2017 | Topics:
Law Enforcement, News, Press Releases, U.S. Agencies, Western Hemisphere
STATEMENT BY HEATHER NAUERT, SPOKESPERSON The United States considers the Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly the illegitimate product of a flawed process designed by the Maduro dictatorship to further its assault on democracy. The process was rigged from the start, from the irregular manner in which the election was decreed to the government’s refusal to ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 4 August, 2017 | Topics:
News, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Constituent Assembly
Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro Moros, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13692, which authorizes sanctions against current or former officials of the Government of Venezuela and others undermining democracy in Venezuela. These sanctions come a day after the Maduro ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 31 July, 2017 | Topics:
News, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: treasury
The United States condemns the elections imposed on July 30 for the National Constituent Assembly, which is designed to replace the legitimately elected National Assembly and undermine the Venezuelan people’s right to self-determination. The United States stands by the people of Venezuela, and their constitutional representatives, in their quest to restore their country to a ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 31 July, 2017 | Topics:
News, Western Hemisphere
Action Targets Officials of Entities Undermining Democracy in Venezuela Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 13 current or former senior officials of the Venezuelan Government pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13692, which authorizes sanctions against officials of the Government of Venezuela and others undermining democracy there. ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 26 July, 2017 | Topics:
Law Enforcement, News, Press Releases, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
The United States welcomes the transfer of Leopoldo Lopez to house arrest, reportedly for health reasons, after more than three years in prison. This is but a first step in the right direction by the government of Venezuela. We reiterate our call for the government to grant Lopez full unconditional freedom immediately. Lopez is just ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 8 July, 2017 | Topics:
News, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Leopoldo Lopez
Will Ostick, Consul General of the U.S. in Tijuana, welcomed guests to the U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana to celebrate the 241th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States. Guests included Francisco Rueda, Lieutenant Governor of Baja California, Juan Manuel Gastélum, Mayor of Tijuana, and friends and partners who collaborate with the U.S. Consulate ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 30 June, 2017 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Consulates, Events, News, Public Affairs, Tijuana, Western Hemisphere
The diverse family of nations in the Americas recognizes democracy is a part of our collective DNA. The Organization of American States (OAS) has for decades provided us a forum to discuss our greatest challenges and take action together to address them. Particularly since the approval by OAS members of the Inter-American Democratic Charter in ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 19 June, 2017 | Topics:
Ambassador, Nuevo Laredo, Political Affairs, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Ambassador Jacobson, OpEd
President Donald J. Trump is changing the policy of the United States toward Cuba to achieve four objectives: Enhance compliance with United States law—in particular the provisions that govern the embargo of Cuba and the ban on tourism; Hold the Cuban regime accountable for oppression and human rights abuses ignored under the Obama policy; ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 16 June, 2017 | Topics:
Key Documents, News, Political Affairs, President Donald Trump, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Cubs, policy
Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, and Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin co-hosted the Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America in Miami, Florida on June 15-16, 2017 with Mexican Foreign Secretary Videgaray Caso, Interior Secretary ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 16 June, 2017 | Topics:
Secretary Rex Tillerson, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America
Opening Plenary Session Florida International University Miami, Florida SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, thank you, Jorge, for that most kind introduction, and also in particular, I want to thank Florida International University for providing their campus and the host site for this conference, which we have been planning for some time and very excited to get ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 15 June, 2017 | Topics:
News, Secretary Rex Tillerson, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Conference for prosperity
As part of the comic contest #ARTEvsVIOLENCIA the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana invited David Glanzer, Director of Communication and Strategy for COMIC-CON the world’s largest comics and entertainment convention to Tijuana. During his visit David Glanzer conducted a lecture in which he talked about the history and evolution of COMIC-CON throughout the years and the ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 8 June, 2017 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Events, Public Affairs, Regions, Tijuana, Western Hemisphere
STATEMENT BY MARK TONER, ACTING SPOKESPERSON Venezuela has been witness in recent weeks to ongoing social protests, ever since the Supreme Court demonstrated its lack of independence from the Executive Branch through a continuing series of court decisions against the members of the freely-elected National Assembly. Thus far, six demonstrators have been killed, with ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 19 April, 2017 | Topics:
News, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Mark Toner
At the annual #Cruce2PM tech and innovation event, Mexicali public school students presented their creative and problem-solving projects using JoyLabz-provided Makey Makey toys used to teach kids to code. A panel of judges including Will Ostick, Consul General in Tijuana, as well as representatives of Innovation Labs, Skyworks, Honeywell, and Baja California’s Educational System, evaluated ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 30 March, 2017 | Topics:
Consulates, Education, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, Tijuana, U.S. & Mexico, Western Hemisphere
ExxonMobil Funds New Higher Education Partnerships in Engineering, Physics, Geology, and Geophysics The U.S. Department of State, Partners of the Americas, and NAFSA: Association of International Educators announced the latest 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grant winners sponsored by ExxonMobil Corporation. The seven Innovation Fund grants announced on March 13, 2017, for higher education institutions ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 13 March, 2017 | Topics:
Education, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
Janine Warner, a pioneer in digital entrepreneurship and online education worldwide, conducted the Digital Journalism Workshop: “Innovations in New Digital Media,” aimed at journalists and students from Tijuana and Mexicali. The workshop focused on topics such as “Entrepreneurial Journalism: How to promote and monetize digital media,” “Opportunities and failures,” and “The five keys to success on ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 28 February, 2017 | Topics:
Consulates, Events, Public Affairs, Tijuana, Western Hemisphere
The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, in partnership with Fundación EnTijuanarte and Halaken Telar Juvenil, announced #ArteVSViolencia, a contest to develop a superhero or comic strip to combat trafficking in persons. Preeti Shah, Public Affairs Officer, highlighted the need to reach young audiences via comics, and the goal of using arts as a vehicle for messages of empowerment and ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 27 February, 2017 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Events, Human Rights, Public Affairs, Tijuana, Western Hemisphere
The US Consulate in Tijuana and Garage Hub launched the “Interactive Workshop on The ABC of Invention, and How to Do and Design” conducted by Tom Heck, Vice-President of the Makey-Makey Education Project. The workshop was aimed at Mexicali STEAM teachers who learned techniques to teach invention literacy, and how to use design thinking via a Makey-Makey, an electronic device that teaches programming ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 21 February, 2017 | Topics:
Education, Events, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, Tijuana, Western Hemisphere
The US Consulate in Tijuana joined forces with Surfrider Foundation in Baja California and Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental (Border Environmental Education Program) to conduct surfing clinics for children of the Boys and Girls Club of Tijuana and of the local foster homes “Eunime” and “La Promesa.” The goal of the surfing clinics was to ...
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 4 October, 2016 | Topics:
Consulates, Environment, Featured Event, Public Affairs, Tijuana, Travel & Tourism, Western Hemisphere
“Even as we mark the end of an era of war, we recognize that the work of achieving a just and lasting peace is only beginning. Yet just as the United States has been Colombia’s partner in a time of war, we will be Colombia’s partner in waging peace.”
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By U.S. Mission to Mexico | 25 August, 2016 | Topics:
President Barack Obama, Press Releases, Public Affairs, Western Hemisphere
We the undersigned, Member States of the Organization of American States (OAS), underscore our commitment to the Charter of the Organization and the Inter-American Democratic Charter, the OAS Permanent Council’s declaration on Venezuela of June 1, 2016 (CP/DEC 63/16), and our support for a timely, national, inclusive, and effective political dialogue to address the urgent ...
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By Embajada de Estados Unidos en México | 12 August, 2016 | Topics:
Political Affairs, Public Affairs, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: OES
Mexico City, August 4, 2016 – John Creamer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Mexico and Western Hemisphere Regional Economic Policy and Summit Issues, visited Mexico August 2-4 to underscore the importance of the bilateral relationship and promote a broad range of areas of cooperation. Creamer met with high-level government officials, representatives from the private sector, academia, ...
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By vazquezv | 4 August, 2016 | Topics:
High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED), Policy, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Economic Policy and Summit Issues
Thank you, President Paxson. It’s a great pleasure to be back at Brown—the first time in a while that I’m not taking the tour with one of my children. When I first received the invitation to give the Stephen A. Ogden lecture, I was very flattered. Then I looked up previous speakers, and thought: This ...
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By Embajada de Estados Unidos en México | 6 April, 2016 | Topics:
Speeches, Uncategorized, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Anti-Corruption, Brown, Jacobson, Roberta
