Mexico Reshuffles Top US Diplomats Over Concerns on Anti-Mexican Rhetoric Anahi Rama and Adriana Barrera - Reuters
go to original April 6, 2016

Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu said the move to have a new ambassador to the United States was prompted by "the anti-Mexico atmosphere, which is largely due to lack of knowledge about our country." (Agence France-Presse)

Carlos Sada, previously the consul in Los Angeles, was named ambassador to the United States while Paulo Carreno, one of President Enrique Pena Nieto's communications chiefs, was appointed the deputy foreign minister for North America.

The new ambassador must still be approved by the Senate.

"We have been warning that our citizens have begun to feel a more hostile climate," Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu told local radio after the announcement.

"This (anti-Mexican) rhetoric has made it clear that we have to act in a different way so that this tendency being generated doesn't damage the bilateral relationship," she added.

Mexican government officials have expressed concern about the rise of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump due to his repeated verbal attacks on Mexico, and his insistence that Mexico should be made to pay for a border wall.

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