Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Obama appoints new ambassador to Mexico after the controversial Wikileaks

Barack Obama Administration hurry to leave in the past diplomatic disagreement between Mexico and the United States emerged from the Wikileaks case. The president has proposed to President Felipe Trace Earl Anthony Wayne to be the next representative in Washington, a decision that transcends within 10 days of the last farewell party for Carlos Pascual, the diplomat who formally resigned in March after complaints from the Mexican Government following the dissemination of the contents of State Department cables.

Tony Wayne, also known as the possible new ambassador, has so far played the second diplomat in Kabul, Afghanistan. Born in 1950, Wayne served as ambassador to Argentina in November 2006 to June 2009. He arrived in Buenos Aires when the relations between the Bush administration and then-President Nestor Kirchner went through a difficult time, to the point that it was the Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana who officially received.

The announcement of Obama's new envoy was received in Mexico as a good sign. The senator and former foreign minister, Rosario Green told this newspaper that came to believe that "the behavior with the case would be without a representative Pascual for a long time, as once happened to us." Instead, it is clear that the U.S.

president "would prefer to avoid a strained relationship." Career Ambassador, Green stressed that we must keep in mind that George W. Bush "stopped taking calls on President Vicente Fox in 2003 [by disagreement between the two countries to the UN in the days before the invasion of Iraq].

President Obama gives this signal in the hope that the relationship is not derailed. " When he speaks of "Pascal case" the senator regards the events following the broadcast in December 2010 in the offices of the Department of State relating to Mexico leaked by Wikileaks and published by El Pais.

In a cable sent by Pascual, U.S. ambassador noted that the Mexican Army seemed to have "risk aversion" and criticized the lack of coordination between different government agencies involved in combating anti-narco. The response of the government of Felipe Calderón was public and unpublished interviews with two newspapers (El Universal, in February and The Washington Post, March 2), Mexican President forgot diplomacy and accused the ambassador of "ignorant "" interventionist "and said he had lost confidence.

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton March 19, head of the Department of State reported that Pascual had resigned the post of ambassador to Mexico, a position he left two weeks ago. The former ambassador of Mexico in Washington, Jorge Montaño, noted that "the attitude of President Obama has pleasantly surprised me.

I would have thought that the answer to what happened to Easter would create a vacuum. The signal is good, positive." The Mexican government has not commented on Tony Wayne, who also starred in the cable Wikileaks. In one of the mails, sent in early 2009, the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires reported that "corruption is rife in the judiciary and police, and covers the policy." Wayne was born in Sacramento, California and has studied in four of the major U.S.

universities: Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard. Interested in philately, Argentina surprised by how quickly he learned Spanish and bulging of its agenda. He is recognized as an expert on trade and development. Could soon be shipped from the U.S. bunker, an emblem of elegant Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City.

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