(17 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico - 17 December 2024
1. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar (third to the right), unveiling dedication plaque outside new U.S. embassy in Mexico City
2. Close of plaque
3. Salazar, officials and businesspeople applauding on stage
4. Attendees applauding
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ken Salazar, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico:
"There is another vision (of U.S.-Mexico relations). You know it very well. It is the vision of dividing, of building walls, of regarding one people as inferior to the other. That is not our vision."
6. Close of U.S. and Mexican flag
7. Mexican duo Jesse & Joy singing U.S. national anthem
8. Performer trick roping
9. Salazar (white hat) watching performance
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Amb. William Moser, former Director of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO):
"And this wonderful, new facility that we are looking at today will be that (diplomatic) hub for the next 75 years."
11. People outside embassy garden
12. Close of scale model of new embassy building
13. Embassy atrium
14. Scaffolding
15. Entrance for employees
16. Close of welcome sign
17. Waiting room for visa applicants
18. Visa interview windows
19. Chairs
20. Sign that reads (English), "Maximum occupancy 429"
21. Pan of visa interview windows, seen from behind
22. Pan of consulate office
23. Various of cafeteria
24. Embassy exterior
STORYLINE:
The U.S. government dedicated its new more than $1 billion embassy in Mexico Tuesday, some two years after it was scheduled to be completed.
Outgoing U.S. Amb. Ken Salazar unveiled a dedication plaque outside the new building — the largest embassy the U.S. has in the world.
The government broke ground on the new embassy in February 2018.
The U.S. will leave its current building on the Mexican capital’s grand Paseo de la Reforma boulevard, which has been a regular site of marches and protests over the years.
The new embassy is on a former industrial site that required extensive toxic cleanup.
The area known as New Polanco includes modern museums and other upscale projects developed by Carlos Slim, one of the world’s wealthiest men.
The new building is still not open to the public, however.
That likely won’t come before late next year as work continues.
The dedication comes just before the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House next month.
He has promised mass deportations and threatened Mexico with crippling tariffs if it doesn't do more to control immigration and drug trafficking.
Trump has proposed Amb. Ron Johnson as the next ambassador to Mexico. Johnson was U.S. ambassador to El Salvador during Trump's first term.
AP video by Martín Silva Rey
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