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US Ambassador to Mexico nominated: Who is Maria Echaveste?

By Take Two Staff
Published Oct 1, 2014
Maria Echaveste has been nominated for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
Maria Echaveste has been nominated for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
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US Ambassador to Mexico nominated: Who is Maria Echaveste?

Policy advisor and Berkeley law school lecturer Maria Echaveste has been nominated to the post of U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. She’s the daughter of Central California farmworkers and previously served in both Clinton and Obama administrations.

For more on who she is and what she faces if appointed, reporter Michael Doyle of the McClatchy newspapers weighs in.