{"id":74290,"date":"2020-02-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/se-reunen-en-mexico-autoridades-de-el-paso-texas-y-ciudad-juarez-con-gabinete-de-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-y-claudia-sheinbaum-a-unos-dias-de-la-firma-del-t-mec\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:03:01","slug":"se-reunen-en-mexico-autoridades-de-el-paso-texas-y-ciudad-juarez-con-gabinete-de-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-y-claudia-sheinbaum-a-unos-dias-de-la-firma-del-t-mec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/se-reunen-en-mexico-autoridades-de-el-paso-texas-y-ciudad-juarez-con-gabinete-de-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-y-claudia-sheinbaum-a-unos-dias-de-la-firma-del-t-mec\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders from El Paso and Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez met in Mexico City with Government Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICO CITY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 6, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Last week, stakeholders across the public, private and academic sectors in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Paso, Texas<\/span> and Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, participated in important meetings in <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico City<\/span> to discuss matters of bi-national relevance, such as economic development, education, tourism, and migration in the border region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder1\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1085585\/FOTO_ELP_CDMX.jpg\" title=\"Delegation from the city of El Paso, Texas, and representatives from the public, private and academic sectors during their visit to the Secretary of the Economy\" alt=\"Delegation from the city of El Paso, Texas, and representatives from the public, private and academic sectors during their visit to the Secretary of the Economy\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The delegation, organized by the Consul General of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Paso<\/span>, Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Le\u00f3n, and headed by the Mayor of <span class=\"xn-location\">El Paso<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Dee Margo<\/span>, supports the objective of building a sustainable bi-national economy, while building strong ties with the Mexican government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This mission allowed us to strengthen our relationship with <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>; we identified several opportunities for collaboration in matters that are important for our region,&#8221; said Mayor <span class=\"xn-person\">Dee Margo<\/span>. &#8220;We believe this visit will allow mutual, long-term benefits to be achieved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are more students from <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-org\">UTEP<\/span> than at any other university in America and our graduates live and work on both sides of the border.\u00a0\u00a0We want to continue to work closely with our public and private sector partners to strengthen our ties with <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> and benefit the region we serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo Ebrard, Foreign Secretary of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, talked about the importance of improving collaboration in the region. Assistant Secretary <span class=\"xn-person\">Luz Mar\u00eda<\/span> de la Mora, pointed out that USMCA offers certainty to investors and highlighted the importance of these visits, because they allow areas of opportunity on the border to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of Economic Development and the Secretary of Tourism of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico City<\/span>, Fadlala Akabani and <span class=\"xn-person\">Carlo Mackinlay<\/span>, respectively, pointed out areas of mutual benefit and the possibility of signing a &#8220;Sister City&#8221; agreement between <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico City<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">El Paso<\/span> region was also discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The busy agenda also included meetings with the Commissioner of the National Migration Institute, Francisco Gardu\u00f1o, with representatives from the United States Embassy in <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, and representatives from the Mexican Council of Foreign Trade (COMCE).<\/p>\n<p>Also included in the delegation visiting <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico City<\/span> was El Paso County Judge <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricardo Samaniego<\/span>; the President of the <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Texas in El Paso<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-org\">UTEP<\/span>), Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Heather Wilson<\/span>; the Executive Director of Borderplex, <span class=\"xn-person\">Jon Barela<\/span>; Directors of Economic Development from both <span class=\"xn-location\">El Paso<\/span> and Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez; Representatives from the Border Relations Committee in the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of El Paso<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p><b>Contact:<\/b><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Olivia Zepeda<\/span><br \/>(915) 493-0716<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:zepedaox@elpasotexas.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">zepedaox@elpasotexas.gov<\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intersectionofpossibilities.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.intersectionofpossibilities.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1085585\/FOTO_ELP_CDMX.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1085585\/FOTO_ELP_CDMX.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCE  La ciudad de <span class=\"xn-location\">El Paso Texas<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICO CITY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 6, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Last week, stakeholders across the public, private and academic sectors in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Paso, Texas<\/span> and Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, participated in important meetings in <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico City<\/span> to discuss matters of bi-national relevance, such as economic development, education, tourism, and migration in the border region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder1\">\n              &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}