The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis will be open for business Monday. It's an office that will serve a group of people that's growing rapidly in our city and state. Mayor Bart Peterson's office has worked for about two years with the Mexican government and the state of Indiana to get this consulate opened.
You don't have to look hard to see why the consulate is needed. Drive down Washington Street a few miles west of downtown, and you'll see the fruits of our Hispanic and Latino community's labor. Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish. There are now some 34,000 Latinos and Hispanics in Indianapolis, and 60% of them are Mexican.
Soon more people will catch onto what the Mexican government is really all about. These are drug cartel networks being set up, they control almost all drugs coming into the US and they have control over all their politicians and some of ours. People wonder how so many illegal drugs can get into the US ---but some of the drug lords can appear on the surface to be very nice people. They just have a whole lot of money.