Mari Carmen Aponte

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Mari Aponte
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United States Ambassador to Panama
Assumed office
November 21, 2022

Aponte has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Oriental Group, a major financial and banking services enterprise in Puerto Rico, from 1998 to 2001 and from 2005 until appointed ambassador to El Salvador.

In addition to decades of law practice, she was a vice-chair of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and a consultant to the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network (HITN).

She served as a director at the National Council of La Raza, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the University of the District of Columbia and Rosemont College. She presided over the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Personal life

In the early 1990s, Aponte dated insurance salesman Roberto Tamayo. Tamayo was accused by a Cuban intelligence defector of spying for the Cuban government. Tamayo was alternately accused of being an FBI informant by a U.S. intelligence source. Aponte's relationship with Tamayo, which ended in 1994, was brought up by Republican Senator Jim DeMint as a reason to stop her confirmation as ambassador to El Salvador in 2011, however, she was confirmed as no "nefarious connection was found". [17]

Aponte speaks Spanish and French.

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References

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  16. Aponte, Mari Carmen [@USAmbassadorPAN] (November 21, 2022). "Fue un verdadero honor presentarle mis cartas credenciales al presidente @NitoCortizo" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved November 24, 2022 via Twitter.
  17. Collins, Gail (December 9, 2011). "The Ghosts of Boyfriends Past". The New York Times. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Robert Blau
Acting
United States Ambassador to El Salvador
2010–2011
Succeeded by
Sean Murphy
Acting
Preceded by
Sean Murphy
Acting
United States Ambassador to El Salvador
2012–2016
Succeeded by
Preceded by Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Acting

2016–2017
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Stewart Tuttle
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim
United States Ambassador to Panama
2022–present
Incumbent