Bush's Father to Attend Calderon Inauguration
 Reuters
| | Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel listens as President Bush speaks about immigration reform in Omaha, Neb., in this Wednesday, June 7, 2006 file photo. 'If the president fails to build a bipartisan foundation for an exit strategy, America will pay a high price for this blunder, one that we will have difficulty recovering from in the years ahead,' Hagel wrote in the Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006 Washington Post. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) |
President George W. Bush on Tuesday named his father, former president George Bush, to lead a U.S. delegation to attend the inauguration of Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon.
Also included in the delegation are Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Antonio Garza, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
Calderon, a conservative, is to be inaugurated on December 1. He emerged the winner of a July 2 election by a razor-thin margin after Mexico's top electoral court threw out charges by his leftist rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that the vote was fraudulent.
The result bucked a trend of leftist leaders coming to power in Latin America and gave President Bush a likely friend south of the border. |
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News from Around the Americas | November 2006 
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