# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mari-carmen-aponte
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:55:27.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mari-carmen-aponte"
name: "Mari Carmen Aponte"
slug: "mari-carmen-aponte"
description: "Mari Carmen Aponte is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Panama in the Biden administration from 2022 to 2025. She previously served as acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs on May 5, 2016. She also served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from August 2010 until December 2011 and again from June 14, 2012, until December 2015. Before that she was serving as a member of the board of directors of Oriental Group, a major financial and banking services enterprise in Puerto Rico. President Obama also nominated her as the United States' permanent representative to the Organization of American States, but the Senate had not acted upon that nomination upon adjournment in December 2014."
tagline: "American diplomat (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mari_Carmen_Aponte%2C_U.S._Ambassador.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.54
  momentum:             5.864661654135339
  historical:           5.481858666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Carmen_Aponte"
    title: "Mari Carmen Aponte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Carmen_Aponte"
    title: "Mari Carmen Aponte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Carmen_Aponte"
    title: "Mari Carmen Aponte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Carmen_Aponte"
    title: "Mari Carmen Aponte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Апонте, Мари Кармен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%92"
    title: "ماری کارمین اپونٹے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6760890"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump