Mexican Consul General Calls Lawsuit ‘Absurd’

Enrique Hubbard Urrea, consul general at the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, says he’s perplexed by a class-action lawsuit calling the local consulate “a lawless world” marked by corruption, bribery and kickbacks. Contending that “that doesn’t happen” here, Hubbard says the suit filed yesterday–which Unfair Park does a good job of explaining–contains allegations that are suspiciously similar to those leveled against the consulate three years ago, before Hubbard arrived. At its root the dispute is really about lawyers battling over lucrative personal-injury business, he says, and the suit itself is “capricious” and “absurd.” Meantime, he’s forwarded a thick file on the matter to the authorities in Mexico City and requested a meeting with the Dallas Observer to clear things up.