Now, more than ever, residents in South Texas have been made plainly aware of our symbiotic relationship with Mexico, Central America and the rest of Latin America.
It's not just the recent humanitarian crisis involving 60,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America that has brought home this relationship. It sued to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, Mexico would catch cold.
Those relationships have become even closer, if not thornier and more knotty.
During the conflict in El Salvador, we saw thousands of Salvadorans fleeing from the guerrilla war that was decimating that nation. Honduras was much the same as was Guatemala. When things go wrong – and most of the time it is a result of some U.S. intervention – the refugees start moving north.But ask people at the Port of Brownsville or at the Chamber of Commerce and they'll tell you that this are has always enjoyed a commercial and trade relationship with Mexico, Central America and the rest of the continent. The U.S. has established numerous consulate offices in these countries to smooth the commercial and diplomatic relations between nations. Mexico, also, has numerous consulates in the United States to handle the day-to-day needs of Mexican citizens in this country.
Just recently, Guatemala recognized the need of its citizens in the United States for assistance in many fronts. Now, partly as a reaction to these longstanding relationships that have been highlighted by the recent upsurge in undocumented minors from Honduras and El Salvador, those countries, too, have established a consulate presence in South Texas.
The latest additions to the diplomatic corps are Sandra Agreda, consul for El Salvador (left in the photo), and Lilian Gomez, consul for Honduras (right). They were accompanied to the City of Brownsville offices by Mexican Chamber of Commerce official for exterior affairs Gerardo Danache, in the middle.
Both these consuls are stationed in McAllen, but traveled to Brownsville to be introduced to the city. There is a significant number of citizens from these countries residing in South Texas and the need arises occasionally for them to seek some sort of assistance from their countries' diplomatic representatives.
We welcome these ladies to South Texas and will soon acquire telephone numbers and email addresses for people from those countries who are here to contact if they need to.
6 comments:
good job Juan
The consuls of these countries have no intention of ending the migration from their countries. Sending females to the US to promote their political intersts is low life. Send them home.
The country governments that these consuls represent and work for are extremely derelict in their duties to govern.
1-They don't protect the people, Maras have been out of control for decades. Such gangs thug people out of neighborhoods. This causes them to cross into the United States without documents.
2.They don't provide economic incentives. Banks don't fund startup businesses generally.
3. Those governments are extremely inefficient and highly corrupt.
For these reasons, the Visiting Consuls from these two countries have near-zero value to South Texas and more importantly, to the masses they are expected to help.
Da Mayor was disguised as the Consul from Extrangia. He gave the welcoming speech to the 100,000 Extranjeros who just entered the U.S. He will house them in the Stillman Shack, his pride and joy.
Instead of spending money on consulates, these piece of shit countries ought to take care of their citizens so they don't have to risk their lives crossing Mexico and into the US. "Symbiotic" would suggest both sides get something out of a relationship. We haven't gotten a damn thing for some time. The US gives, gives, and gives and these leeches take, take, and take. The ones suffering are the poor people dying every day looking for a better future for their kids because their leaders are slightly more inept than ours.
Hey, don't knock these "praises". We receive tons and tons of Chiquita Bananas . Bananas are good for us. Good K.
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