Madame Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter - Softcover

Mari-Luci Jaramillo

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9781931010047: Madame Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter

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ISBN 10: 1931010048 ISBN 13: 9781931010047

Publisher: Bilingual Pr (Bilrp), 2002

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A child of manual laborers works her way up to become a U.S. ambassador to Honduras and a celebrated civil rights advocate. Despite a remarkable career, Jaramillo shows that she remains the shomaker's daughter, faithful to the precepts of her Latino family.

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Jaramillo, former ambassador to Honduras, recalls the trajectory of her life from an early childhood of poverty as a shoemaker's child growing up in New Mexico to a life as diplomat and civil rights advocate. Growing up in a close family that emphasized the importance of education to social advancement, Jaramillo overcame her shyness and the low expectations for Hispanic youth in a segregated school system. Later, with a husband, three children, and a factory job, Jaramillo struggled to finish an undergraduate degree. She joined her husband in the teaching profession and got involved in remedial education and teaching English as a second language, which led to an interest in civil rights for Hispanics. Her divorce after 21 years of marriage proved a career catalyst when the Carter administration tapped her as ambassador to the impoverished Central American nation of Honduras. Her childhood poverty helped her relate to the common people; however, balancing the diplomatic goals of the U.S and the local politics of military dictators was a more exacting task. Vanessa Bush
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