Mexico Announces Wash. Ambassador


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Mexico Announces Wash. Ambassador

Wednesday, October 1, 1997; 4:59 a.m. EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Jesus Reyes Heroles, an MIT graduate and current energy
secretary, has been named Mexico's new ambassador to Washington.

President Ernesto Zedillo's office announced Tuesday that Reyes Heroles will
probably take up his new job later in October -- in time for a planned visit
by Zedillo to the United States.

Officials expect Reyes Heroles' confirmation in coming weeks by the Senate,
where Zedillo's Institutional Revolutionary Party holds a majority, to go
smoothly.

Zedillo has tentative plans to meet with President Clinton in mid-November
in Washington.

Reyes Heroles, a lawyer and economist, is a graduate from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

He replaces Jesus Silva Herzog, a former Treasury Secretary, who has been
heading the Mexican Embassy in Washington since early 1995.

Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassadorial post in Mexico City probably won't be
filled before the end of the year. James R. Jones resigned as ambassador in
June and Clinton's choice of former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld was
blocked in the Senate by North Carolina Rep. Jesse Helms.

(c) Copyright 1997 The Associated Press

 
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