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Home - U.S. Consulate Nogales, Mexico News & InfoU.S. Citizen ServicesVisas to the U.S.Policy & IssuesResourcesB. Franklin LibraryEspañol Highlights Nogales - A Brief History Nogales is located 60 miles south of Tucson, Arizona and 140 miles north of Hermosillo, Sonora on the US/Arizona-Sonora, Mexico border. In 1650, Jose Romo de Vivar became the first European who is thought to have visited the Nogales area. Early in the eighteenth Francisco Eusebio Kino, the Italian missionary, established several missions around Nogales, notably at Tumacacori, Huevavi, and Cibuta. The city of Nogales was officially founded in 1882 along a north-south rail line to promote trade between the United States and Mexico... (more) Latest Headlines United States Values Strong Ties with Canada, Mexico The United States has no closer neighbors than Canada and Mexico, says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America a unique regional forum on trade and security issues. The relationship among the three countries is “one of the most critical” in American foreign policy, Rice says. High Food Prices, Urban Migration Make It Hard to Help the Poor The dynamics of development and humanitarian assistance are changing, according to Henrietta Fore, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. She is joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer in speaking of new challenges posed by high food prices for donors and recipients. Food Crisis Has Long-Term Global Challenges, Rice Says President Bush is seeking an additional $350 million from Congress to provide immediate emergency food assistance, but the current food crisis has long-term global challenges, says Secretary Condoleezza Rice. "We need to encourage farmers and transporters, markets and governments to meet this urgent worldwide challenge," she says. U.N. Calls for New Food Donations, Predicts Long-term Success U.N. World ...