By Michael Oleaga
The Latin PostPresident Barack Obama announced new nominations for "key" administrative posts, including a new U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
According to the White House Office of the Press Secretary, Obama intends to nominate Maria Echaveste, currently a senior adviser at NVG, LLC, a company she co-founded in 2001, as the next Mexican ambassador on behalf of the U.S. Department of State. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will become the first woman to hold the position.
The Los Angeles Times said she is a former farmworker from Texas whose family later moved to California.
"In the 1950s, her parents immigrated as part of the then-popular "bracero" guest program that brought waves of Mexicans to work in the U.S. Southwest. By the time she was 12, her family had settled in the Oxnard area, and, as the oldest of seven children, Echaveste became a surrogate mother to her younger siblings," The Times article says.
The Washington Post wrote: "The oldest of seven children, she was born in Harlingen, Tex., a border town, before moving as an infant to Clovis, Calif., outside of Fresno. Her parents came from Mexico as guest workers in the "Bracero" program, a World War II-era series of arrangements that ultimately brought millions of Mexicans into agriculture and other manual labor jobs in the United States. As a child, Echaveste helped her parents pick strawberries."
Echaveste is also University of California, Berkley's School of Law's policy and program development director at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy.
"In addition to serving on the Berkeley Law faculty, Echaveste is affiliated with UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies. She is a graduate of both UC Berkeley and Stanford University," noted UC Berkeley's Kathleen. Maclay.
According to Maclay, Echeveste has worked to develop and engage Mexican-American youth as a board member of the U.S./Mexico Foundation's Mexican-American Leadership Initiative.
Echaveste previously served as Special Representative to Bolivia in 2009. She also has experience in the White House as assistant to then-President Bill Clinton and as deputy chief of staff from 1998 to 2001. On behalf of the U.S. Department of Labor, Echaveste was the administrator for the Wage and Hour Division from 1993 through 1997. Echaveste served 12 years, between 1980 and 1992, as a corporate litigation attorney.
According to the White House Office of the Press Secretary, Obama intends to nominate Maria Echaveste, currently a senior adviser at NVG, LLC, a company she co-founded in 2001, as the next Mexican ambassador on behalf of the U.S. Department of State. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will become the first woman to hold the position.
The Los Angeles Times said she is a former farmworker from Texas whose family later moved to California.
"In the 1950s, her parents immigrated as part of the then-popular "bracero" guest program that brought waves of Mexicans to work in the U.S. Southwest. By the time she was 12, her family had settled in the Oxnard area, and, as the oldest of seven children, Echaveste became a surrogate mother to her younger siblings," The Times article says.
The Washington Post wrote: "The oldest of seven children, she was born in Harlingen, Tex., a border town, before moving as an infant to Clovis, Calif., outside of Fresno. Her parents came from Mexico as guest workers in the "Bracero" program, a World War II-era series of arrangements that ultimately brought millions of Mexicans into agriculture and other manual labor jobs in the United States. As a child, Echaveste helped her parents pick strawberries."
Echaveste is also University of California, Berkley's School of Law's policy and program development director at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy.
"In addition to serving on the Berkeley Law faculty, Echaveste is affiliated with UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies. She is a graduate of both UC Berkeley and Stanford University," noted UC Berkeley's Kathleen. Maclay.
According to Maclay, Echeveste has worked to develop and engage Mexican-American youth as a board member of the U.S./Mexico Foundation's Mexican-American Leadership Initiative.
Echaveste previously served as Special Representative to Bolivia in 2009. She also has experience in the White House as assistant to then-President Bill Clinton and as deputy chief of staff from 1998 to 2001. On behalf of the U.S. Department of Labor, Echaveste was the administrator for the Wage and Hour Division from 1993 through 1997. Echaveste served 12 years, between 1980 and 1992, as a corporate litigation attorney.
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7 comments:
The Republican's Party philosophy: if you work hard and diligent you will be a better migrant worker. Fear not trickle-down economics is good for you. Pres.Reagan.
I'm glad a qualified person was nominated for the post.
But why do they always refer to Harlingen as a border town?
HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! Wake up little brown toad. They will NEVER accept you. Stop raping the city of Brownsville in your sycophantic efforts to be wanted in whities inner circle.
Apparently Maria beat Da Mayor picking more cotton than him. She baled him by far more than 500 pounds. A record at that time. He will eventually join the Order of the Trappist monks at Llasa. He will befriend crickets and cockroaches.
And we have a lazy assed disbarred lawyer talking and writing smack about our beloved city. Verguensa debe de tener reaping the compensation that our true veterans get. Then he lashes out at other leeches that rape the system. Rata de dos patas. Lets hold a special election and vote him out of a town that he despises. Juanito no te dejes!!!
Thanks Ms M....er. ;)
Harlingen is a quasi border town.
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