Former Governor of Tlaxcala, Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, was nominated by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to serve as Mexico’s Consul General in San Francisco, California, United States of America (USA).
The name of the former governor of Tlaxcala from 2017 to 2021, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is part of a list of proposed diplomatic appointments to represent Mexico in the US, Canada, and Brazil.
The 10-person group was sent through a letter addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who requested that the appointments be sent to Congress for ratification.
The proposal was received by the federal legislature on Tuesday, June 19, and referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee, where they will analyze the candidates’ compliance with the requirements and summon them to appear. If they comply with this requirement, the consuls will be ratified.
The former Tlaxcalan president appears as a candidate, along with Rafael Eugenio Laveaga Rendón for Atlanta, USA; Carlos Iriarte Mercado, Boston, USA; Luis Rodríguez Bucio, Dallas, USA; Marcos Augusto Bucio Mujica, New York, USA; Donají Alba Arroyo, Raleigh, USA; and Neftalí Said Pérez González, San José, USA.
They will present it one week before the celebration date.
Also present are Claudia Velasco Osorio, Sao Paulo, Federative Republic of Brazil; Iván Roberto Sierra Medel, Toronto, Canada; and Julián Adem Díaz de León, Vancouver, Canada.
Once the appointment is approved, this would be Mena Rodríguez’s second position within the so-called Fourth Transformation. From August 2023 to February 2025, he served as head of the General Directorate of the National Lottery for Public Assistance, a decentralized agency of the federal public administration.
Mena Rodríguez holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from El Colegio de México and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. Before becoming governor of Tlaxcala, he served as Mexico’s delegate to the OECD Steering Committee for Local Development and Employment; as coordinator of Liaison with Social and Business Organizations at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), as Secretary of Tourism, and as a local representative in Tlaxcala.
Source: oem
