Top US diplomat for Latin America resigning [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Top US diplomat for Latin America resigning
Posted: May 06, 2011 2:50 PM CDT
Updated: May 06, 2011 3:00 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration's senior diplomat for Latin America is stepping down.

The State Department says Arturo Valenzuela will leave this summer to return to a teaching post at Georgetown University after serving since 2009 as the assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Spokesman Mark Toner says that the administration will start looking for a successor and that it was deeply appreciative of Valenzuela's service.

Valenzuela, a Chile-born academic and veteran of the Clinton administration, is announcing his resignation at a time when no U.S. ambassador is posted to Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.



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