Remarks by Richard Montes de Oca
77 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Okay, so that takes care of Cartagena. Next one was Antigua Guatemala. Update on that from Mayor Juan Manuel Asturias.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Oh, but I didn't know about that. We should know about that.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“All right. One thing I wanted to bring up on the county report. Anybody else have anything else on county reports?”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Do we have any mayors coming from any of the other sister cities that we should be aware of?”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, you're going to be there. No, I'm going to be there. You're going to be there. Update us at the next meeting. Yes.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Can you email us the committee a link with the registration?”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“All right. I wanted to just bring one other thing that we've been talking about Mexico also for a while. We don't have a sister city with Mexico. Am I correct? Correct. The consul general here is super active and they're in our own city. They're doing left and right events. I was at the America's Food and Beverage. They invited me to come in. They hosted Yucatan and they are very interested in doing this. And I'm willing to step in to help there because since I'm getting a lot of silence and not a lot of activity, I mean, even if I support Argentina in general from a scientific perspective,…”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And I don't know if Olga's still on because she has a lot of perspective on this, but we would love to have her input and intake on that as well. But the Council of Generals, you know, like I said, very active. The Secretary of State of Yucatan was here. They had a roundtable discussion myself and a few other, you know, interested international professionals were at the meeting. And they're really interested in obviously.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“They said that, you know, it's on a pork. It's very, you know, there's a lot of business activity. They're trying to expand.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“A wealthy city as well. I mean, look, all I really know about Mexico is, you know, Mexico City and Cabo and, you know, Cancun. So anyway. When it goes beyond that, I have to defer to people that are much more familiar.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I think that would be the next step. I have the cards and the confirmations from the council general. I have it from the secretary of state and the secretary of finance. But I haven't, you know, the mayor was not here and I haven't spoken to the mayor of Merida. But before I do that, I also want to make sure it satisfies and maybe, you know, I can look at the guidelines and see. If you think that it's something that we can recommend at our next meeting, and we can maybe consider moving that forward. And again, I'd be willing to take that on just because of the relationship I built with them…”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, so. All right. So I think we're in good shape there. It's”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay, so we'll explore that some more way to hear back from staff on the compatibility and maybe you can put it on the agenda. Well, we also have to reach out to the mayor to make sure we get buy-in from the mayor, which what I could do is work through the consul general and the secretary of state of the state. And then from there, drill down into the mayor. Unless you guys have other suggestions too, after you look at that and think about what the best approach may be. It's a heavy lift, you know, unfortunately, you know, we have plenty of stuff to do, but we have, but if it's not…”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay. So... have a resource where we can always go all the things that we've ever done, you know, to be able to promote other cities and get them encouraged and, you know, showcase the stuff that we've accomplished. And I mean, we're part of international. I think it helps. It goes a long way.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah. Move to adjourn. No more discussion. Meeting adjourned.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I think both work well. I think Saturday is more like a festival daytime type of event. Friday could be a very like the artwork type of like Uruguay. I don't remember what the day was. I think it was a Thursday. You have to ask the consulates. If you see all the consulates, all the events from the consulates are Saturday or Sunday's. I think a Thursday night is better than Friday a lot of people on Fridays want to we often don't want to conflict with like art walk that they do the first Friday or whatever their Friday is art walk is better on Saturday you know person but”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I mean, if I had my way, it would be like if we did one every quarter and that quarter, each quarter was a series. But in like the last one would be all of them. and then you have the password again this is like thinking way ahead but i think we start with just the series and focus on one thing and then we can expand to a broader bigger type of international event you know as opposed to a specific you know country”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I think that, you know, I think that, sorry to interrupt, but I think that also the broader one will attract more people because now you're saying Colombia is going to go because it's going to be a little piece of Colombia, a little piece of Spain.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Actually, the Mexican one is coming up right now. Eliel just emailed me the concert.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Are we talking September 31st? No, October 31st. Dia de los Muertos.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Wanted. I'll tell her again. Wanted. Attraction on the 31st is day of the day, but I wanted to mention 1 other thing. I know it's off record here and off thing, but it's the American Bar Association. International law sections, so a couple of 1000 members of the bar from all over the US, but also outside of the country. They're having their 2027 meeting in Maine, in Miami. But one of the things that they've asked me to help coordinate is a consul general international type reception so that the consul generals are there, lawyers from all over the world are there. And I was thinking we could…”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And is it a reception? Kind of same way.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“But I haven't been to the one for... It's a reception. It's a reception, like a cocktail. That's what they want to do. Yeah. So it's just a matter of... And what do they usually do?”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“But that's amazing. Well, I mean, maybe we can combine it with that. So it could be like City of Coral Gables, Chamber, the American Bar Association, the Consulate Court.”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“like the alumni building like the new alumni center or something where's that that one nice like it's like you know i'm talking about that there's that it's on san amado it's not a bad idea i'm just trying to i mean we can also just host it like at my east right i mean on the top i don't know how many people hosted hosted on”
International Affairs Coordinating Council · Sep 28, 2026