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Posted on 11/24/2002 3:03:29 PM PST by Tancredo Fan
I just sent Terry a letter to the editor of my local paper I sent today. You can read more about it here.
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Just don't sound like a drooling groupie...[g]
Send her our FRegards...
And you got in a plug for FR!I did not realize that Bush and Garza were such close friends, from the Boston Globe:
Bush friend takes up post in Mexico
New ambassador cites special ties
By John Rice, Associated Press, 11/22/2002
EXICO CITY - A friend of President Bush who grew up on the Texas-Mexico border arrived yesterday as the new US ambassador at a time when the once-fervent friendship between the two countries seems to have cooled.
Texas Railroad Commissioner Tony Garza will present his credentials to President Vicente Fox of Mexico today. He was sworn in Monday during a quiet ceremony at the Oval Office.
Garza, a second-generation American whose four grandparents were from Mexico, told reporters at Mexico City's airport that he has a ''special relationship with Mexico, principally for having been born and grown up close to the border.''
''But as you also know ... Mexico is much more than that,'' Garza said, speaking in Spanish, adding that he wouldn't let his border roots blind him to issues facing the entire country.
Garza will participate in top-level meetings of US and Mexican officials scheduled to take place in Mexico City next week.
US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Mexico's foreign secretary, Jorge Castaneda, and other officials are expected to discuss a number of key issues, including trade and migration, at the binational commission sessions.
Garza said that during his swearing-in ceremony, ''The president made clear once again that for us, there is no more important relationship'' than Mexico.
''I think the challenge for him will be to try to reinvigorate President Bush's interest in Mexico and pursue some of those previous bilateral issues that were raised prior to the terrorist attacks'' of Sept. 11, 2001, said Roderick Camp, a specialist on Mexico at Claremont-McKenna College in Claremont, Calif.
Bush took office in January 2001, not long after Fox was inaugurated in Mexico, and the two appeared to form an unusually close friendship. Bush expressed support for plans to legalize much of the Mexican labor force working in the United States, a crucial issue for Mexico.
But the terror attacks yanked US attention away from Mexico and put immigration reforms on the back burner.
US threats to attack Iraq also have alarmed the Mexican public. Fox and his aides have urged the United States to take no action without approval from the UN Security Council, of which Mexico is a non-permanent member.
Mexico's lack of enthusiasm for the Iraqi intervention has clearly irritated US officials.
Garza's relationship with Bush is ''a significant advantage in reinstituting the president's interest in Mexico,'' Camp added.
Garza was the first Cabinet member Bush appointed after being elected governor of Texas. Garza served as Texas secretary of state from January 1995 to November 1997, overseeing issues involving the border and Mexican affairs.
He served as a county judge from 1988 to 1995, a position that involved a number of border-related issues.
Garza was elected to the railroad commission in 1998. In 2000, he was an assistant secretary to the Republican National Convention.
This story ran on page A37 of the Boston Globe on 11/22/2002.
© Copyright 2002 Globe Newspaper Company.
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