{"id":18284,"date":"2015-09-24T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/group-fights-to-keep-mexican-consulate-in-anchorage\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:02:37","slug":"group-fights-to-keep-mexican-consulate-in-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/group-fights-to-keep-mexican-consulate-in-anchorage\/","title":{"rendered":"Group fights to keep Mexican Consulate in Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> Mexicans living in Alaska will soon have to travel out of state to receive services from the Consulate of Mexico, but a group is petitioning to keep the Anchorage office open.<\/p>\n<p>The consulate plans to close its doors in November, citing economic issues and a lack of participation, KTVA-TV reported. However, Anchorage community leader Daniel Esparza is finding signatures to stop the move.<\/p>\n<p>Esparza said nearly 4,000 Mexicans in Alaska receive services at the consulate annually. So far he has collected about 900 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge impact and here in Alaska not just for the Mexican community, it\u2019s for the Latino community in general,\u201d Esparza said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the consulate doesn\u2019t just benefit people from Mexico as other Latin American residents also use the office as a resource.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people from El Salvador stop by in the consulate and say how can I contact my consulate in San Francisco, that kind of help, that kind of stuff,\u201d Esparza explained.<\/p>\n<p>A representative from the consulate in Seattle will be in Anchorage on Thursday to discuss the closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Mexicans living in Alaska will soon have to travel out of state to receive services from the Consulate of Mexico, but a group is petitioning to keep the Anchorage office open. The consulate plans to close its doors in November, citing economic issues and a lack of participation, KTVA-TV reported. However, Anchorage community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18284"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}