El Paso businesswoman’s trade talk trip turns to tourism after D.C. snowstorm
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By Jose Soto, SHFWire.com
WASHINGTON – An El Paso businesswoman traveled to the capital hoping to make new business deals. Instead, she found herself in the midst of heavy snowfall that shut the government and most everything else. Michele Beckley arrived in Washington on March 5 expecting to attend an event at the White House hosted by Business Forward to discuss U.S. international trade. Mother nature had other plans. Beckley found out just after her plane landed that the event had been postponed to March 18.