KRGV-TV (Rio Grande Valley), August 19, 2009
An investigation has been launched into a passport scheme involving the Mexican consul in Dallas.
Mexico’s foreign minister has reassigned Consul General Enrique Hubbard while the investigation continues.
While working at the Dallas Mexican consulate, Hubbard allegedly allowed staff members to personally profit from selling passport-size photos and permitted employees to skim money from passport fees.
The irregularities in the fees charged were detected by internal controls.
Original article
(Posted on August 21, 2009)
Comments
Small change on the Tijuana scale… I still laugh 10 years on about the lady at Bridge No. 1 in Neuvo Laredo heading stateside.
I am rather surprised, actually, that this situation was even deemed worthy of reporting. If you’ve lived near the border most of your life (Tijuana is ours), then you’re all too familiar with the Mexican political scene: solid graft and corruption, run mostly by violent drug cartels. If the Mexicans had any cojones at all, they’d ask the U.S. for some Marines to come in and clean out the drug lords and their croneys, then the few rich oligarchs who control the country, and set up a limited democracy for a limited time, long enough to get the population educated beyond the 6th grade (the end of compulsory education in Mexico). But as long as present conditions last, all the socalled officials at the borders are going skim off as much dinero as they can pour into their own pockets. Why? Es la vida, amigos….
One bites the dust in Dallas and the whole Mexican U.S. consular network gets “re-aligned” to reflect experience and “areas of expertise”.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/20/20090820consul0820.html
