Mari Carmen Aponte (born 1946) is a Washington DC-based attorney who was named acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs on May 5, 2016. Before this post, she served as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, a position she first held from August 2010 until December 2011 and then from June 14, 2012, until December 2015. Before that she was serving as a member of the Board of Directors of Oriental Group, a major financial and banking services enterprise in Puerto Rico. President Obama also nominated her as the United States' Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, but the Senate had not acted upon that nomination upon adjournment in December, 2014.
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1946 (age 79) Santurce, Puerto Rico
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