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Mexican consul visits Jackson

Mexico's consul general for Utah and Wyoming, Eduardo Arnal Palomera, made a rare visit to Jackson this month. He held a public forum, chatted with some of the 180 people lined up to renew Mexican passports and IDs and also met with town and county officials.

Latino Resource Center Executive Director Sonia Capece says the visit was a big deal.

“It was truly significant to have them here because it was the first time that the Consul himself comes to visit,” Capece said. “And he wanted to meet with the community to understand how Jackson is and know the needs of the local Mexican community.”

Capece says Palomera considers himself the least orthodox consul for his country and prides himself on visiting every county that he represents to assist Mexicans and Mexican Americans. Formerly posted in Denver and Chicago, he moved to the Salt Lake City-based post about a month ago. 

A multi-media journalist, Rebecca Huntington is a regular contributor to Wyoming Public Radio. She has reported on a variety of topics ranging from the National Parks, wildlife, environment, health care, education and business. She recently co-wrote the one-hour, high-definition documentary, The Stagecoach Bar: An American Crossroads, which premiered in 2012. She also works at another hub for community interactions, the Teton County Library where she is a Communications and Digital Media Specialist. She reported for daily and weekly newspapers in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Wyoming for more than a decade before becoming a multi-media journalist. She completed a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado in 2002. She has written and produced video news stories for the PBS series This American Land (thisamericanland.org) and for Assignment Earth, broadcast on Yahoo! News and NBC affiliates. In 2009, she traveled to Guatemala to produce a series of videos on sustainable agriculture, tourism and forestry and to Peru to report on the impacts of extractive industries on local communities.
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