Alejandra garcia williams counsel

Alejandra García Williams, the former Mexican consul in Santa Ana, died Monday from cancer.

She would have been 51 on Thursday.

“She was always a person that was very giving to her job, and she was someone that was always fighting for the rights of the Mexican community – that was her main concern,” said Arturo Sanchez, spokesman for the Mexican Consulate in Santa Ana.

“And also promoting Mexico everywhere she was.”

García Williams served close to 25 years in Mexico’s foreign service, including five in the Mexican Consulate in Santa Ana, where she was typically seen with her Chihuahua, Miel (honey).

Last year, García Williams left Orange County to head to Sacramento when she was promoted to consul general.

Prior to those posts, she served as acting consul general and later deputy consul general in San Francisco.

In France, she headed the Office of Internal Politics, Human Rights and Legal Affairs at the Mexican Embassy fr