MEXICO CITY — The U.S. authorities on Tuesday devoted its greater than $1 billion new embassy in Mexico, some two years after it was scheduled to be accomplished.
Outgoing U.S. Amb. Ken Salazar mentioned that the most important embassy the U.S. has on the planet “highlights the singular relationship between our nations and nations.”
The federal government broke floor on the brand new embassy in February 2018. The U.S. will go away its present constructing on the Mexican capital’s grand Paseo de la Reforma boulevard, which has been an everyday web site of marches and protests over time.
The brand new embassy is on a former industrial web site that required in depth poisonous cleanup. The realm often known as New Polanco contains trendy museums and different upscale tasks developed by Carlos Slim, one of many world’s wealthiest males.
The brand new constructing continues to be not open to the general public, nevertheless. That doubtless received’t come earlier than late subsequent yr as work continues.
The dedication comes simply earlier than the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White Home subsequent month. He has promised mass deportations and threatened Mexico with crippling tariffs if it would not do extra to regulate immigration and drug trafficking.
Trump has proposed Amb. Ron Johnson as the subsequent ambassador to Mexico. Johnson was U.S. ambassador to El Salvador throughout Trump’s first time period.
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