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The always-on-the-move Mayor Gavin Newsom is off to Mexico City next week, touching down Monday and returning to San Francisco Wednesday.

Highlights of his quick trip south of the border include meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard to discuss immigration and border issues, global warming, green technology, arts and culture, trade and the economy.

Newsom will also take a gander at Mexico City's bike share program with Martha Delgado, Mexico's Secretary of the Environment; visit the subway control center with the system's general director, San Francisco Bojorquez; visit the Virtual Center of Climate Change; attend a luncheon hosted by AeroMexico; and chat with Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources.

But there will be a little time to play San Francisco tourist, too. Newsom will tour the Museo Nacional de Antropologia and visit the Pyramids of Teotihuacan.

Several city officials are accompanying the mayor: Treasurer Jose Cisneros; Nathan Ballard and Joe Arellano of his communications office; Mark Chandler, director of the Mayor's Office of International Trade and Commerce; Cristine Soto de Berry, deputy chief of staff; Eve O'Toole, senior policy advisor; and Matthew Goudeau, director of protocol.

A variety of businesses including Pacific Gas and Electric are sending representatives, as well, and they're the ones picking up the whole tab.

Source: sfgate