{"id":528951,"date":"2010-04-15T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82458"},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:18:37","slug":"mexican-president-to-address-congress-on-drug-violence-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528951","title":{"rendered":"Mexican President to Address Congress on Drug Violence, Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican President Felipe Calderon will address Congress on May 19, making this the first appearance of a Mexican president in the Capitol in almost 10 years (former president Vicente Fox visited in 2001). Calderon will discuss drug violence and immigration reform. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced his visit late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=61296\" >San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a warm welcome to &#8220;our neighbor and  friend,&#8221; looking forward to hearing his views on border towns and  organized crime.<span id=\"more-82458\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our countries may be separated by a border, but we share much in  common &#8212; our values of faith, family, and love of our respective  countries,&#8221; Pelosi said in a statement, noting that more than 12 percent  of Americans are of Mexican ancestry. &#8220;Relations with Mexico are of  utmost importance to the United States. President Calderon&#8217;s address to  Congress will provide us with a renewed opportunity to strengthen our  bonds of friendship, discuss our shared challenges, and embrace common  opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican President Felipe Calderon will address Congress on May 19, making this the first appearance of a Mexican president in the Capitol in almost 10 years (former president Vicente Fox visited in 2001). Calderon will discuss drug violence and immigration reform. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced his visit late Wednesday. From the San Francisco Chronicle: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}