WNU #1072: US Envoy Canned After Mexican “Drug War” Revelations

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1072, March 20, 2011

1. Mexico: US Ambassador Canned After “Drug War” Revelations
2. Haiti: Aristide Returns, Two Killed in “Calm” Vote
3. Honduras: Striking Teacher Dies in Police Attack
4. Puerto Rico: ACLU Calls on US to Probe Abuses
5. Links to alternative sources on: Latin America, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Central America, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti

ISSN#: 1084 922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/

*1. Mexico: US Ambassador Canned After “Drug War” Revelations
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced on Mar. 19 that the US ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, had resigned. Pascual, who has only been at the post for a year and five months, will remain in Mexico to organize an “orderly transition,” Clinton said.

Pascual’s resignation came after a number of embarrassing revelations about US-Mexican relations, starting with the WikiLeaks group’s publication of diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Mexico.[...]

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