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 News from Around the Americas | December 2006 
Portland Consul Appointed to Mexican Cabinet
 Thelma Guerrero - Statesman Journal
| Fernando Sánchez Ugarte
What they do: Mexican consul generals and consulates represent the national government of Mexico and provide assistance and protection to Mexican nationals in the receiving state. |
Fernando Sánchez Ugarte, the consul general for the Consulate of México in Portland, has accepted a Cabinet position under newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderón.
Ugarte, 56, will serve as Mexico's undersecretary of finance, part of Mexico's Treasury Department.
"This is an important responsibility," Ugarte told the Statesman Journal on the phone Monday from Mexico City.
"I have experience in this area," he said, "and it's something I really enjoy."
Ugarte, who is Mexico's former top antitrust cop, holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, a noted bastion of free-market thinking.
He earned his undergraduate degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, that nation's equivalent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
At the Trade & Industrial Promotion Ministry, he earned his technocratic spurs working on tax and industrial promotion policies.
And as president of the Federal Competition Commission, Ugarte went up against some of the most powerful corporations operating in Mexico, including Telefonos de Mexico and the Coca-Cola Co.
Ugarte has served as consul general in Portland for the past two years.
He will remain in that post until after the holidays, at which time he will pass the baton to David Simón.
Simón will serve as acting consul general until Mexico's president appoints a new consul general.
Ugarte's new appointment came three days after Calderón's inauguration Dec. 1.
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