Utahn elected to panel for Mexicans living abroad
Mexicans living in a four-state area have elected a counselor to represent their interests to the government back home.
Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming chose Roshbita Lopez for the Local Council of Mexicans Abroad. More than 500,000 Mexicans live in the four-state area.
Lopez is a U.S. citizen and Spanish teacher in a Salt Lake-area district. She received eight of 14 votes cast by an electoral committee in the late September election. Orem's Gabriel Perez came in second with three votes.
The 120-member council was formed in 2002 by then-Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Lopez, 42, will start her three-year term in January.
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This has gone too far!
An American citizen representing foreign…
JMT | Oct. 6, 2008 at 2:06 p.m.
now we know they will try to stay out side our country even though…
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