Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA
"El Salvador is among our top trading partners in the countries of the Free Trade Area of the Americas," said Craig Lesser, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. "We're very pleased that Georgia is being increasingly recognized by the countries of Latin America as an essential part of their plans to expand both business interests and cultural ties."
Asdrubal Aguilar Zepeda will be the consul general of El Salvador in Atlanta. Aguilar has served in diplomatic positions in El Salvador and internationally since 1974, including as vice consul in Los Angeles and Chicago, and most recently as El Salvador's consul general in Chiapas, Mexico.
More than 75,000 Salvadorans are thought to live in the Southeast, including some 35,000 in Georgia.
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