{"id":717880,"date":"2010-04-15T14:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:18:46","slug":"michelle-obama-departs-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/717880","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama departs Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/michelle%20mex10.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michelle mex10.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/michelle%20mex10-thumb-500x375-19657.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span>First Lady Michelle Obama boarding aircraft Thursday at Mexico City (<em>photo by Lynn Sweet)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pool report by Lynn Sweet<\/p>\n<p> MEXICO CITY&#8211;First Lady Michelle Obama wrapped up her first solo international official trip on Thursday, with wheels up from Benito Juarez International Airport at 12:01 p.m. local time, en route to San Diego, Calif.<\/p>\n<p> Mrs. Obama&#8217;s motocade zipped from La Hacienda de los Morales to the airport on empty highways, arriving at 11:30 a.m. and proceeding to the Presidential Hangar.<\/p>\n<p> A few minutes later, at 11:36 a.m., Mrs. Obama emerged from the terminal, accompanied by a Mexican protocol deputy, to be serenaded by a waiting group of boys and girls. She was wearing the same white pants and ivory jacket she had on during her morning roundtable with a group of a dozen Mexican youth leaders. She listened with cupped hands and clapped when the kids were done with two songs, in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p> The songsters waving U.S. and Mexican flags were members of the Christel House choir, called the Polyphonic Chorus, a U.S. Embassy official told your pooler. The adorable children wore uniforms&#8211;blue jumpers and tan shirts for girls, blue sleeveless sweaters, blue pants and tan shirts for boys. Christel House was founded to help impoverished children.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Obama&#8217;s departure greeters met her at the foot of the stairs  to her aircraft: those identified by your pooler:  U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual; Ambassador Julian Ventura, Undersecretary for North America; Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan and his wife, Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan.<\/p>\n<p>She climbed the stairs alone. At the top of the stairway she paused, looked back and entered the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Michelle Obama boarding aircraft Thursday at Mexico City (photo by Lynn Sweet) Pool report by Lynn Sweet MEXICO CITY&#8211;First Lady Michelle Obama wrapped up her first solo international official trip on Thursday, with wheels up from Benito Juarez International Airport at 12:01 p.m. local time, en route to San Diego, Calif. Mrs. Obama&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30KI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819087,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717880\/revisions\/819087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}