BUENO > Arizona-Mexico Trade Mission in Mexico City:

This post is a follow-up to one on 26 September.
Back in the 1990's when your blogger lived in New York City he was [and is] a promoter of transnational initiatives with Mexico, so very happy to see government and business leaders in Arizona getting over the right-wing conservative distortion that interrupted decades of good feelings between the two countries and the shared history, commerce, technology, education, family relations and cultures going back centuries.

Couldn't get to the conference yesterday, but the Arizona Republic did a nice report yesterday 

Image from PHX Mayor's Press Office

Read more >> http://www.abc15.com/news/state/phoenix-mayor-business-leaders-launch-trade-mission-to-mexico-show-capitol-the-real-arizona that featured the mayor of Phoenix Greg Stanton who is leading another trade mission this week to Mexico City, bringing 30 business leaders and economic development experts with him, along with the mayors of Yuma, Surprise, Mesa, Tucson and Nogales
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According to the press release from the Governor's Office on 05 October The delegation arrived in Mexico City on Sunday. This morning they met with leaders of ProMexico, the Mexican government’s international economic development arm that recently opened an office in Phoenix. Later today delegation will tour Startup Mexico, the country’s premier tech-hub incubator, where the Arizona Technology Council will sign a memorandum of understanding to help startup tech companies in both Arizona and Mexico grow and find new markets across the border. Later Mayor Stanton will sign a similar memorandum of understanding with Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera.

Margie Emmermann on the left with Governor Ducey at right

Among the more than 30 business leaders and economic development experts who are on the trade mission are Stephen Zylstra, President of the Arizona Technology Council; Russ Yelton, CEO of Pinnacle Transplant Technologies; Tom Rainey, President of the Arizona Business Incubation Association; Lea Marquez Peterson, President of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; and Margie Emmermann of the consulting firm Molera Alvarez and former executive director of the Arizona Mexico Coalition. 
Stanton was quoted in the The Phoenix Business Journal saying "Mexico is a warm and welcoming environment for Arizona business, and we are making it known that the bad decisions of the past are not the future between our regions. . . "
Trade with Mexico is expanding.
Governor Doug Ducey, unlike the previous Republican governor, has been very active restoring relationships with our friends in Mexico after the disastrous passing of a mis-guided legislative action called SB1070. 
There are groups that have been working for years on both sides of the border to expand Arizona-Mexico connections - just to name a few: the Arizona-Mexico Commission and both the Arizona Office of Tourism and the Mexico Board of Tourism, as well as trade, finance and cultural organizations.