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Voces Consulares: Agosto vamos con todo

By Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi En agosto el consulado de México ofrece actividades especiales para seguir atendiendo la gran demanda de servicios consulares, proteger los derechos de nuestra población y promover oportunidades educativas para quienes viven en Kansas, Missouri y el oeste de Oklahoma.Así, el día 14 el director general de Servicios Consulares de la Secretaría de […]

Human trafficking: modern day slavery

By Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi Human trafficking is a crime that severely affects the dignity of the victims, depriving them of their freedom and forcing them to perform domestic service, forced labor or sex exploitation. It is a form of modern slavery.International efforts to counter this crime took shape in 2003, when the United Nations (UN) began […]

Voces Consulares: Two years after the El Paso massacre: Say No to hate crimes!

By Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi Two years have passed since the attack that killed 22 people, among them nine Mexican nationals, and injured 20 more in a shopping center in El Paso, Texas. The prosecution of the defendant, who faces – among others – federal hate crime charges has been delayed by the pandemic, according to authorities’ […]

Voces Consulares: Let us discuss our concerns.

By Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi Maria went on a Saturday to the Consulate of Mexico to apply for a passport and I asked her whether she was already vaccinated against COVID-19. “I am not, since I had an accident” she told me when I brought up the issue and she decided not to take advantage of the […]

Voces Consulares: Delta

By Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi COVID, vaccines and Delta are three words that could very well encompass the uncertainty, hope and challenges that we have lived through and continue to face since the beginning of the pandemic, although in July 2021 there is a radical difference compared to the days of March 2020. Because of its potential […]

Day at the Service of our Community

By Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi If you have heard the expression “let’s do it together”, this coming Saturday you, people representing many organizations in Kansas City and we from your Consulate of Mexico can contribute to protect ourselves as a community against the pandemic.By a happy coincidence, at the Consulate of Mexico we will hold our eighth […]

Voces Consulares: Meeting of LGBT+ Mexican communities abroad

From June 28 through July 1st the First Meeting of LGBT+ Mexican Communities Abroad will take place with the participation of experts, allies, and activists from more than 40 cities in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the hosting country, Mexico.This encounter aims to make visible the daily promotion […]

Voces Consulares – DACA: Nine years

By Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi This week nine years ago, on June 15, DACA was announced as a measure of the United States Government that in 2012 created a provisional deportation protection for those who arrived in the country in an undocumented manner while under 16 years of age.For the Consular Network of Mexico in the United […]