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 Travel Writers' Resources | May 2007 
Metro Latino: Conference for Spanish-Speaking Journalists
 Christina Muñoz - KATV
Mexico City - For 43 years, every Mexican consulate office in the U.S. and Canada has sent one Spanish-speaking journalist to a three-day conference in Mexico City.
The conference is a way for journalists north of the Mexican border to learn more about Mexico from the south side of the border.
(Alejandro Estivill, Secretary of Foreign Affairs) "There's not another so intense relationship in the world that goes form politics, economics, cooperation in health, cooperation in education, culture. There's a lot there. That's why we have such a border with such intensity."
It is that intense relationship that keeps the office of foreign affairs in Mexico offering this conference every year.
(Mary Ann Martinez, Conference Participant) "It's been very interesting, very informative and very eye-opening."
The nearly four-dozen journalists heard from various Mexican leaders on topics ranging from education to culture to economics to immigration.
(Martinez) "I've definitely gotten a very Mexican perspective of the immigration situation in the U.S. It's very different from what we get to hear. I think that as journalists it's always good to have as many different perspectives especially on something that's so important and so talked about as immigration is."
The goal is to keep the lines of communication in mass communication open across the border.
(Estivill) "We have in Mexico the duty to produce better jobs here in Mexico so that these labor jobs d not go to any other part of the world. Also to protect, foster, and empower the people of Mexico that are already in the United States and they should have the possibility of a better development." |
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