A post left empty since March 19, 2011
Sources in Washington say the US government will likely propose career diplomat Earl Anthony Wayne as the next US Ambassador to Mexico, a key diplomatic post left abandoned since March 19th of this year.
Wayne served as the US Ambassador to Argentina. He is currently second in charge at the US embassy in Afghanistan, where he has gained experience on failed states. He also understands the issue of people trafficking. But Dolia Estevez, a veteran Mexican correspondent in Washington, says he is generally not knowledgeable of the many complex issues facing Mexico, and will have to rely heavily on his staff at the US embassy in Mexico City, which is largely made up of bureaucrats who worked for the previous US Ambassador do Mexico, Carlos Pascual.
Pascual resigned his post in late March following growing tensions in US/Mexico bilateral relations. Wikileaks had revealed that Pascual had authored a set of diplomatic cables that were highly critical of the Calderon administration. A source at the US State Dept. tells me Calderon personally requested that Pascual resign to avoid derailing the important US/Mexico bilateral relationship.
Mexican foreign relations officials know that Afghanistan is central to US anti-terror strategy, and, speaking off the record, they worry that Wayne could bring that policy emphasis to the US embassy in Mexico City.
SOURCES: Wikileaks, Dolia Estevez Blog, US State Department
SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Anthony_Wayne"
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