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The Phibian at Cdr Salamander ("Proactively “From the Sea”; leveraging the littoral best practices for a paradigm breaking six-sigma best business case to synergize a consistent design in the global commons, rightsizing the core values
supporting our mission statement via the 5-vector model through cultural
diversity.") noted an assignment of significance. Money quote(s):"You can often judge the importance a nation sees things something in the world by who they send to keep an eye on it."Mexico City got a new American defense attaché."Three time All-American wrestler, Navy SEAL, and married to an astronaut with whom he has had four children."Interesting background. Wonder if someone in D.C.'s been reading their W.E.B. Griffin.12/13
TSB at The Skeptical Bureaucrat ("Giving my fellow Americans the view from my cubicle") explains things for those with too-short memories.Money quote(s):"(T)he Mayor may or may not know why the practice of blocking access to Rio Danubio started, since it goes way back to 1986, but it was, in fact, for the purpose of providing better security to the visa applicants who line up outside the embassy.The section of Rio Danubio in question is a one-block stretch that runs between the embassy office building and the Marie Isabel Sheraton hotel."&"In 1986, the embassy's consular section was located in a lower level of the embassy office building and visa applicants queued up along Rio Danubio to be admitted into the embassy, one small group at a time, via a side entrance that was roughly in the middle of the block. The street had a fair volume of vehicle traffic, some of it associated with a side entrance into the Sheraton, and it was not unusual for cars to be parked there.In May 1986 a group calling itself the Commando Internacionalista Simon Bolivar parked a carbomb on Rio Danubio next to the hotel's side entrance. That put the bomb directly opposite the routine daily queue of visa applicants; clearly, it was an attempt to cause mass casualties. Fortunately, the bomb was discovered and rendered safe by the police (if I recall correctly, the bomb's crude homemade timer had failed), so no one was injured."
From my archive of press clippings:San Pedro Sun
Ambassador and Travel Agents tour SPJune 26, 2008
On June 16th, 2008 Ambassador of Iran, His Excellency Doctor Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh presented his credentials to Governor General Sir Colville Young. At his presentation, Honorable Abyaneh extended warm greetings from his country and assured Sir Colville of greater development exchanges between both countries. The Iranian Ambassador resides in Mexico City and represents Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. During his visit to the country, His Excellency also took the opportunity to visit Ambergris Caye and discovered why everyone falls in love with the country.Read the whole article here.Snippet(s):"As Ambassador of Iran to Belize, His Excellency plans on sharing technology and knowledge with Belizean counterparts in an effort to better the country. Iran has invested much money in the United States of America and it is the hopes that the same can be accomplished in Belize."&"In the entire country of Belize there are five or six families or a total of 15 individuals from Iran."
DC ExaminerTravel advisory affects area students' plansBy Rachelle BrownSpecial to The Examiner 3/5/09 Martin do Nascimento hoped he could volunteer while in Mexico for spring break. Read the whole article here.Snippet(s):"The American University senior is part of a group of AU students who will be in Oaxaca next week for an alternative spring break, a service learning experience in which the students will study economic development in Mexico. They were also supposed to do a service project at the Mexico City garbage dump."
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"To increase safety and calm anxious parents, additional safety measures have been added for the trip to southern Mexico. Now students will have a nightly curfew, avoid public transportation and not travel on the bus overnight. Those changes meant adjusting the trip’s itinerary, and volunteering at the dump is off the schedule."
From my archive of press clippings:Jamaica GleanerStudents in search of their rootspublished: Sunday May 18, 2008
Mexican Ambassador Leonora Rueda (seated, second left) with some of the University of the West Indies students and their lecturer, now in Mexico. - Contributed Students in search of their roots Fifteen students from the modern languages department of the University of the West Indies (UWI) are set to learn about their African-Mexican roots.Read the whole article here.Snippet(s):"The group, along with a lecturer, Dr Maite Villoria-Nolla, left on Wednesday for a two-week practice/home stay in Mexico, organised by the Mexican Embassy in Jamaica. They will visit Mexico City, as well as Yanga, a village in the state of Veracruz, which was established by a Maroon community. The community is said to have pioneered the emancipation movements in the Latin American and Caribbean countries by signing a treaty with the Spanish Crown in 1630."
