What US Latinos Would Like to See in President Obama's Mexico Visit Tony Castro - VOXXI
go to original May 2, 2013

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Since moving to the U.S. with her husband 15 years ago, Consuelo Castaneda has made regular pilgrimages to Mexico City every few months.

“I’m close to my family, and I want my children to grow up close to their grandmother,” says Consuelo, who goes by Chelo, the wife of an American engineer she met while they were both students at the national university in the Mexican capital.

“Each visit I also make time to go to the Basilica (de Guadalupe) where I pray for my family and for Mexico.”

Chelo’s prayers for her homeland are much the same as that of millions of Mexicans – for an end the drug war violence that has killed tens of thousands and for peace to the nation’s poor, many of them having to seek a better life in the U.S.

But Chelo also asks God for a cure to problem that often goes unnoticed next to the drug war and the illegal immigration.

“I ask God for a cleaner Mexico,” she says. “A Mexico with cleaner air, a cleaner environment, a cleaner quality of life.”

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