The Medellin mayor won’t give up on the idea of a U.S. consulate in Colombia’s second city.
A representative of the Bogota U.S. embassy however has put a damper on the plans and said that given the current budget and the limited disposable resources, the U.S. Department of State only can open new consulates in “exceptional situations.”
Medellin’s Mayor Anibal Gaviria Correa won’t throw in the towel so easily though and suggested that perhaps it is better to leave the project until after the U.S. presidential elections when the experts and councilors of the country were not as tied up in campaign politics, reported newspaper El Colombiano.
The Medellin mayor has been lobbying to bring a U.S. consulate to the city since the start of the year, when he wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, whose representative deemed the project “unviable.”
