President Shuffles Cabinet, Replaces Security Chief and Foreign Relations Head The Associated Press
go to original August 27, 2015

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto Reuters)

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has replaced the country's national security chief, 1½ months after top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison.

Pena Nieto did not mention the escape Thursday when he announced that National Security Commission head Monte Alejandro Rubido was leaving the Cabinet. His replacement is Renato Sales, the current head of the anti-kidnapping commission.

Guzman's July 11 escape proved a major embarrassment to the government.

Pena Nieto named current foreign relations secretary Antonio Meade as the head of the social development department.

Current tourism secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu will take over the country's top diplomatic post.

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