Mexican Envoy's Remarks Cost Job

[Judi Lynn]

November 18, 2003


THE WORLD
Mexican Envoy's Remarks Cost Job
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, the U.N. ambassador, said last week that the U.S. does not treat Mexico as an equal.


By Chris Kraul and Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writers


MEXICO CITY — Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, has lost his job after remarking last week that his nation remains the disrespected "backyard" of the United States.

Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters Monday night that President Vicente Fox had decided to "separate" Aguilar Zinser from his duties effective Jan. 1.

Aguilar Zinser, speaking at a university in Mexico City last week, said Mexico was not treated by its northern neighbor as an equal, as members of the European Union are. As a result, he said, Mexico was forced to regularly "eat humble pie." (snip)

(snip) Aguilar Zinser's departure will not be mourned by the Bush administration. He was a vocal proponent of the Mexican government's decision to oppose the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a position that reflected the will of the Mexican public but rankled U.S. diplomats nonetheless. (snip/...)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-zinser18nov18,0,3524390.story?coll=la-headlines-world

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[La_Serpiente]

1. Geez

I knew Bush was firing everyone in his cabinet, but I didn't know his influence reached across borders. Bush probably didn't want Mexicans to turn on him during the General Elections.

[schultzee]

6. He is a fascista.

[oasis]

2. Viva Mexico

:bounce:

[whirlygigspin]

3. don't worry Mexico

the other neighbor (Canada)
hasn't even been invited over for dinner
since the boy king seized power.

[schultzee]

5. What an arrogant little coward he is....can't even handle MPs being

rude and asking questions, so he refuses to speak to the British Parliment. He has no balls. Nixon and Clinton took heat that would make Bush fall over and foam at the mouth.

[schultzee]

4. Bush's fangs are everywhere to distroy free speech and dissent

and I never thought things would get this bad.