Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
In office May 5, 2016 – January 20, 2017
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Roberta S. Jacobson
Succeeded by
Francisco Palmieri
United States Ambassador to El Salvador
In office August 21, 2012 – February 7, 2016
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Sean Murphy (Acting)
Succeeded by
Jean Elizabeth Manes
In office September 27, 2010 – January 2, 2011
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Robert Blau (Acting)
Succeeded by
Sean Murphy (Acting)
Personal details
Born
1946 (age 77–78) Santurce, Puerto Rico
Political party
Democratic[citation needed]
Education
Rosemont College (BA) Villanova University (MA) Temple University Beasley School of Law (JD)
Mari Carmen Aponte (born 1946) is an American attorney and diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Panama in the Biden administration since November 2022. She previously served as acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs on May 5, 2016.[1] She also served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from August 2010 until December 2011 and again from June 14, 2012, until December 2015.[2][3] 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,[4] but the Senate had not acted upon that nomination upon adjournment in December 2014.
^"Aponte, Mari Carmen".
^"President Obama nominates Mari Carmen Aponte as new Ambassador to El Salvador". Embassy of the United States San Salvador, El Salvador. December 9, 2009. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
^"US ambassador leaves El Salvador after Senate fails to ratify her". Washington Post. December 30, 2011.[dead link]
^"Obama names Aponte to top US post at Organization of American States - Caribbean Business". Archived from the original on January 12, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
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