Senator Rosario Green's attitude baffles me. The Senator is no lightweight, in the regard that she was foreign minister for Ernesto Zedillo 1998-2000, and now presides the Mexican Senate's foreign relations committee. Yet her comments recently make little logical sense:
She declared she wanted Carlos Pascual, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, designated a persona non grata.
Yet why? She is clearly offended by Pascual's evaluations of Mexico's security efforts, known through Wikileaks, but these were exactly that: unwelcome leaks, in the sense that Pascual was not speaking off the record in order to plant the story in the Mexican press, and as such was making an assessment not meant for the Mexicans.
Moreover: She is upset, and quite rightly so, by the newly discovered deliberate leak of U.S. weapons to Mexico; she also opposes the arming of U.S. agents in Mexico, clearly a very real issue of sovereignty.
Yet none of these objections have anything to do with Pascual himself. As such, I can't think of any better way of describing this as mere posturing.
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