The president of the United States, Joe Biden, nominated Ken Salazar as his country’s ambassador to Mexico on Tuesday, a position that has been vacant since January 20, reported
Ken Salazar was secretary of the Interior during the administration of Barack Obama (2009-2013), senator from Colorado (2005-2009) and attorney general of Colorado, according to the White House. In 1998 he became the first Latino to serve as a state official in Colorado and he was also the first Latino to represent Colorado in the Senate.
As Obama’s Secretary of the Interior, Salazar played a key role in energy and climate change policy, as well as in that administration’s conservation agenda. However, he was questioned by environmental activists for his alleged links with mining and oil companies.
In the Senate, Salazar promoted an immigration reform, but it did not prosper.
Who is Ken Salazar?
Born in 1955 in Alamosa, Colorado, Salazar is a fifth-generation rancher in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. He is also a partner at WilmerHale, an American law firm and founder of the firm’s Denver office. Salazar represents clients on energy, environment, natural resources and Native American issues.
Salazar has a Bachelor of Science from Colorado College and a law degree from the University of Michigan. He also holds honorary degrees from the Colorado School of Mines, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the University of Colorado School of Law, the University of Denver School of Law, and Colorado College.
The White House highlights that Ken Salazar’s mother tongue is Spanish.
The US embassy in Mexico had been left without a head since the departure of Christopher Landau, who was nominated for the position by former President Donald Trump. After leaving the embassy, Landau has made several statements in which
In addition to Salazar, the White House announced the nomination of US ambassadors to Sri Lanka, Gambia, Guinea, Israel, Paraguay, Costa Rica, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the International Civil Aviation Organization.
