Alicia Kerber-Palma, Consul General of Mexico, photographed in her office at the Mexican Consulate General, in Houston, Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessOutside the Mexican Consulate in Houston on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Houston. The office is going to move its current offices to a new area of the city, but the change, affecting around two million people of Mexican origin and many businesses in the region, will not take effect until the end of next year.
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessOutside the Mexican Consulate in Houston on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Houston. The office is going to move its current offices to a new area of the city, but the change, affecting around two million people of Mexican origin and many businesses in the region, will not take effect until the end of next year.
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessOutside the Mexican Consulate in Houston on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Houston. The office is going to move its current offices to a new area of the city, but the change, affecting around two million people of Mexican origin and many businesses in the region, will not take effect until the end of next year.
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessOutside the Mexican Consulate in Houston on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Houston. The office is going to move its current offices to a new area of the city, but the change, affecting around two million people of Mexican origin and many businesses in the region, will not take effect until the end of next year.
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessOutside the Mexican Consulate in Houston on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Houston. The office is going to move its current offices to a new area of the city, but the change, affecting around two million people of Mexican origin and many businesses in the region, will not take effect until the end of next year.
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessOutside the Mexican Consulate in Houston on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Houston. The office is going to move its current offices to a new area of the city, but the change, affecting around two million people of Mexican origin and many businesses in the region, will not take effect until the end of next year.
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessTraffic moves along Interstate 69 next to the Consulate General of Mexico on San Jacinto Street south of downtown Houston, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019.
Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessTraffic moves along Interstate 69 next to the Consulate General of Mexico on San Jacinto Street south of downtown Houston, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019.
Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessA man is exploring informative booklets presented to the public at the Consulate of Mexico in Houston on December 18, 2019.
Olivia P. Tallet / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow LessTwo women are conversing in front of a poster promoting the Comprehensive Care for Women program at the Consulate of Mexico in Houston on December 18, 2019.
Olivia P. Tallet / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow LessClaudia Sosa, right, talking about services available for victims of domestic violence to a visitor at the Consulate of Mexico in Houston on December 18, 2019. Sosa works with a nonprofit called “Mil Mujeres” (A Thousand Women) that is partnering with the consulate to offers legal services.
Olivia P. Tallet / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow LessA sign with the Mexican national emblem welcomes visitors at the entrance of the country’s consulate in Houston.
Olivia P. Tallet / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow LessLanguage acquisition teacher Adriana Guarinos tells students they have five minutes remaing in class during a Newcomer Program class at Hauke Academic Alternative High School, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Conroe. The program, a collaboration between Conroe ISD and the Mexican Consulate’s Plazas Comunitarias program, teaches recently immigrated students an elementary and middle school education in one year.
Jason Fochtman, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessThe relocation of the Mexican consulate will mean it will lose its highly visible and longtime home on the edge of downtown, but to Consul General Alicia G. Kerber Palma, the move offers the agency the chance to grow.
“This also is an opportunity that allows us to develop a more modern, more dynamic consulate,” said Kerber Palma, who was appointed to the Houston office in June.