Mexico to ‘pause’ relationship with US embassy after judicial reform criticism, president says

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Mexico to ‘pause’ relationship with US embassy after judicial reform criticism, president says

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The ******** government has paused its relationship with the U.S. embassy in the country, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after the U.S. ambassador criticized a proposed judicial reform backed by the leader.

“There is a pause,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a press conference, clarifying the freeze was just with the embassy and not with the ******* States as a whole.

Last week Ambassador Ken Salazar labeled the reform, which proposes that judges be elected by popular vote, a “major risk to the functioning of Mexico’s democracy.”

He also cautioned of the potential risk to the U.S.-Mexico trade relationship. The countries are each other’s largest trade partners.

Canada’s ambassador to Mexico also warned of investment concerns.

The pause in relationship with the U.S. embassy is “because (the ambassador) is looking to talk with us,” Lopez Obrador said. “It’s not personal, we’ve had a good, constructive relationship.”

Salazar had said he was open to speaking with ******** government leaders to discuss different models for judicial representation.

Lopez Obrador in recent days has decried the critique as disrespectful and interventionist.

(Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by Sarah Morland)

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