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Amb. Garza visits Nuevo Laredo

On October 30, 2006, Ambassador Garza traveled to Nuevo Laredo to inaugurate the first Secure Entry for Travelers Rapid Inspection (SENTRI) lane at the Laredo/Nuevo Laredo crossing, to take part in the groundbreaking ceremony for a new water treatment facility in Nuevo Laredo, and to witness the launching of a program to repair and expand the sewage treatment system.

Inauguration of SENTRI lane. Left to right: Eugenio Garza, Jr., Director of the Laredo, Texas, border crossing; Henry Cuellar, Texas Congressman; Jose San Martin Romero, Director General for Projects at the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation; Daniel Peña Trevino, Mayor of Nuevo Laredo; Amb. Garza; Eugenio Hernandez Flores, Governor of Tamaulipas; Jose Guzman Montalvo, Director General, Mexico Customs Office; W. Ralph Basham, CBP Commissioner; Eloy Morales Fong, Director General for Citizen Affairs of the Mexican Secretariat of the Comptroller; Raul G. Salinas, Mayor of Laredo, and Arturo Barrio, Director for Border Affairs, North America Directorate, Secretariat of Foreign Relations.

Groundbreaking ceremony for new water treatment facility in Nuevo Laredo: Left to right: Raul G. Salinas, Mayor of Laredo; Daniel Peña Treviño, Mayor of Nuevo Laredo; two Tamaulipas government officials; Jorge Garces, Managing Director of the North American Development Bank; Amb. Garza, and Eugenio Hernandez Flores, Governor of Tamaulipas.

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