Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

New $577 Million U.S. Embassy in Mexico Being Criticized

Critics say new American embassies are getting more expensive.

Cost overruns in Afghanistan are over $150 million, and the new embassy in London could top $1 billion. Nearly a year ago, CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes showed us how glass for the London embassy had to be shipped back and forth across the Atlantic for framing. Now, Cordes reports from Washington on problems with an embassy in the works in Mexico.

It is an embassy that was supposed to cost $577 million to build, but the construction estimate has gone up by one third -- and the State Department hasn't . . .

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