Mexicans resentful of Canada’s sudden invocation of visas

July 19, 2009
By David Agren

Hundreds of Mexicans wait in line to apply for a visa at the Canadian embassy in Mexico City July 15, 2009.Photograph by: Eliana Aponte , Reuters

MEXICO CITY — Adriana Arriaga fiddled with her iPhone and leaned impatiently along a metal barricade on a recent morning, while waiting for an entry visa outside the Canadian Embassy in a posh district of the Mexican capital.

A university graduate who speaks English well and works in a family medical-supply business, she booked a five-day junket to Toronto, Montreal and Niagara Falls last month.

She cited “Canada’s natural beautyâ€