By Juan Montoya
Rodolfo Quilantan, the Mexican consul in Brownsville, was notable for his absence when he failed to make the recent trip to Mexico City with the Mr. Amigo Association to formally invite actor Eduardo Yanes.
Traditionally, the Mexican Consul has been the host to the group and accompanies them to invite that year's Mr. Amigo.
Now those close to Mexican government circles say that Quilantan may be getting the not-too-subtle hint from the Mexican Foreign Relations people that there 's trouble afoot and he may have fallen from grace in their eyes.
To say that Quilantan has had a rocky relationship with the local media would be an understatement. On more than one occasion he has avoided the press, going as far as to break a reporter's tape recorder when he raised the electronic window to his car to avoid dealing with their questions.
In particular, we have learned from the accounts in the Mexican media that Quilantan has dodged questions relating to the massive deportation of Mexican citizens by U.S. immigration authorities which has flooded Mexican border cities with hundreds of deportees who have no place to go.
Now we have learned that Mexican Senator Manuel Cavazos Lerma has forwarded copies of those news stories to Jose Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Mexico's Minister of Foreign Relations. In a letter sent by Cavazos Lerma, the senator includes formal complaints from the Matamoros CANACO (Chamber of Commerce) and FENACO ( La Federación de Cámaras Nacionales de Comercio, Servicios y Turismo) of Tamaulipas and asks the minister to assist them to resolve a "series of problems" that have arisen in relation to Quilantan.
Now, with the absence of Quilantan from the trip to Mexico City, it may be a hint of things to come for the consul.
City Manager Charlie Cabler and commissioner Rick Longoria represented Brownsville on the trip and the only representative on the Mexican side was by the wife of the Matamoros mayor Sylvia Guerra. Is this the writing on the wall for Quilantan? It seems that as far as the chambers of commerce and leading businessmen on the Mexican side, they've had enough of his good offices and wouldn't lament his leaving.
Rodolfo Quilantan, the Mexican consul in Brownsville, was notable for his absence when he failed to make the recent trip to Mexico City with the Mr. Amigo Association to formally invite actor Eduardo Yanes.
Traditionally, the Mexican Consul has been the host to the group and accompanies them to invite that year's Mr. Amigo.
Now those close to Mexican government circles say that Quilantan may be getting the not-too-subtle hint from the Mexican Foreign Relations people that there 's trouble afoot and he may have fallen from grace in their eyes.To say that Quilantan has had a rocky relationship with the local media would be an understatement. On more than one occasion he has avoided the press, going as far as to break a reporter's tape recorder when he raised the electronic window to his car to avoid dealing with their questions.
In particular, we have learned from the accounts in the Mexican media that Quilantan has dodged questions relating to the massive deportation of Mexican citizens by U.S. immigration authorities which has flooded Mexican border cities with hundreds of deportees who have no place to go.
Now we have learned that Mexican Senator Manuel Cavazos Lerma has forwarded copies of those news stories to Jose Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Mexico's Minister of Foreign Relations. In a letter sent by Cavazos Lerma, the senator includes formal complaints from the Matamoros CANACO (Chamber of Commerce) and FENACO ( La Federación de Cámaras Nacionales de Comercio, Servicios y Turismo) of Tamaulipas and asks the minister to assist them to resolve a "series of problems" that have arisen in relation to Quilantan.
Now, with the absence of Quilantan from the trip to Mexico City, it may be a hint of things to come for the consul.
City Manager Charlie Cabler and commissioner Rick Longoria represented Brownsville on the trip and the only representative on the Mexican side was by the wife of the Matamoros mayor Sylvia Guerra. Is this the writing on the wall for Quilantan? It seems that as far as the chambers of commerce and leading businessmen on the Mexican side, they've had enough of his good offices and wouldn't lament his leaving.
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